Valențe artistice și simbolice în creația grafică a lui Gheorghe Vrabie

Abstract

Master of arts Gheorghe Vrabie is counting among those who played a significant role in the development of the national contemporary school of graphics. He outlined the symbolic identity of the country by elaborating its main attributes – the State Coat of Arms of the Republic of Moldova and the Coat of Arms of Chisinau. Working in several fields – plastic and decorative arts, heraldry and vexillology, – Mr. Vrabie be queathed over 100 titles of illustrated books and numerous works of easel graphics, remarkable for compositional solutions of postmodernist vision, metaphorical approach to the ideational content, and the suggestive-symbolic way of stylizing the artistic image. Mr. Vrabie’s creative potential was manifested in the illustration of the literary works of national and universal literature. Among the most important achievements are those executed in etching, aquatint techniques for: “Harap Alb” by Ion Creangă (1967), “Vita nuova” by Dante Alighieri (1971), “Luceafărul” by Mihai Eminescu (1970–1974), “Spells” by Paul Valery (1973–1979) and others. Original artistic valences present the master’s easel graphics, in particular: the etchings “The Fallen Soldier” (1968), “The Sentinel” (1968) and “The Tragedy of Râbnița” (1975); the etching and aquatint cycles – “Hipism” (1971–1979) and “The Contemporary City” (1972–1970) etc.

Keywords

• book ilustration
• easel graphics
• etching
• aquatint
• metaphor
• simbolism
• suggestive communicativeness of the image