Talk:Corneliu Baba

Personal realism vs. Socialist Realism
In working on the citations, I noticed that a lot could be written on the relationship between Baba's personal realism and the official Socialist Realism. The short of it is that the Romanain Communist art establishment initially disliked Baba's work; that he, in turn, came to despise Communism; that they nonetheless came to realize they had a great painter on their hands and that they could fudge matters a bit and pretend that he fell within Socialist Realism (certain of his works, perhaps made in a spirit of conciliation, certainly did so); that toward the end of the Communist regime he did his best to withdraw into the studio, focusing especially on a series of Mad Kings that may have been an implicit comment on Ceauşescu; that the Romanian Communist regime was at times able to trade on the prestige of his art; and that he hated the fact that they were able to use him to promote values he rejected. There would be quite a bit of work to get that properly cited, but I think it is all there in Susura's writing, much of it in quotations from Baba himself. - Jmabel | Talk 04:21, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Memoir
Does anyone have a copy of Baba's memoir? I doubt it's been translated, and I'm unlikely to track it down in the U.S. - Jmabel | Talk 04:21, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

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