PASTORAL MOTIF IN THE MOLDOVAN BOOK GRAPHICS (1945–2010)

Abstract

One can meet illustrations with pastoral motif in the creation of Moldovan graphic artists of the period between 1945-2010.These illustrations can be divided into several categories: a shepherd’s portrait with his pipe, double portrait (male and female) on the background of rustic scenery, genre scenes and figurative compositions, including multifigurative and nonfigurative, with landscape. At the same time, all landscape examples in the illustrations of the native graphic artists demonstrate the variety of formal and stylistic concepts and principles of approach, the level of the authors’ mastery and technique attested at different historical stages. The present study offers one of the possible ways of structuring pictures with pastoral motifs.

Keywords

• graphics
• book
• illustration
• process
• technique
• trend
• motif
• pastoral