Venice 1957

Corneliu Baba's "Venice" presents us with an urban scene rendered in a palette of muted yet intense colors, dominated by the warm hues of red and the cool shades of blue. The rough texture and heavy brushstrokes add a tactile dimension to the painting. Baba employs a structure of layered forms to build a sense of depth, but the composition pushes against traditional perspectival logic, creating a slightly unsettling effect. This defiance of conventional representation invites questions about the nature of perception and reality. Are we seeing a faithful depiction, or a commentary on the subjective experience of space? The architectural forms, while recognizable as buildings, are reduced to their essential shapes, almost as if Baba is deconstructing the very idea of Venice. Perhaps he is suggesting that beneath the surface of the city’s romantic facade lies a more complex and fragmented reality. The visible brushwork reminds us that this is, after all, a constructed image, a meditation on Venice rather than a mere representation of it.