Romfilatelia, the specialized company in issuing and trading philatelic items in Romania, put into circulation an issue of postage stamps which have as subject pictures of some important Romanian vaguardists.
Major political and social changes caused by the first World War across the world were entirely influencing the Arts.
“La belle époque” is both the forerunner and the creator of the vanguardist art. It appeared like frame of mind and it was represented, just from the beginning, also by artists of Romanian origin.
Marcel Iancu is the positive Dadaism advocate; the geometry of his drawings, inventive and cheerfully manipulated is an expression of constructed harmony.
M. H. Maxy is the author of some works which oscillate between analytic cubism, futurism and abstract paintings; in fact, a synthesis of some kinds of structuring of the image in fine arts.
For Merica Ramniceanu, modernism was a way of life. Her works, a fine analysis of shapes in space, have approached, sometimes, the art deco decorativism.
Victor Brauner is the painter in whose pictures the human being is abnormally elongated, stylized in curb planes. Creator of pictopoetry – a blend of letters with abstract forms – Brauner defines his compositions in a unity of angles, circle arcs and variety of forms.
Jean David’s work is an extreme synthesis of the emphasized form. His drawings are dominated by a flat form colour which demonstrates his purist vision.
Hans Mattis – Teutsch, a work with a spectacular equation that is restricted to the lyrical expressionism in the art deco style. He pays homage to the man, the heroic silhouette being combined with the metaphysical portrait.
