Ion Popescu Negreni (1907 - 2001) - Landscape with houses

For Ion Popescu-Negreni, reality remains, non-dogmatically, an inexhaustible model not so much “subjects”, nor as data that exhausts in the authority of his perceptive message the relationship with the creative / performer subject, but of forms, of chromatic confrontations / harmonizations between the great chromatic masses and the linear discourse. As with most artists for whom reality is halfway between model and pretext, he does not focus on the conceptual aspect of approaching reality and, even less so, on the ideological aspects of reference, being in a state of maximum freedom. in his workshop, in which the plain-air exercise introduces useful information rather to stimulate a purely pictorial imaginary, far from the substitutive, fictional functions subsumed by a symbolic regime. " (Alexandra Titu).