A Visionary Abstract Artist Finally Gets His Due

Gheorghe Virtosu did not trust his peers to understand his work. He sensed his paintings were too weird and too radical for his viewers. As a master of abstract movement, he makes oil paintings with embedded coded messages. He workes privately and passionately on a staggering array of canvases that strive to represent the spiritual and social world in visual terms.

His reticence is understandable. When Virtosu began making abstract paintings in 2002, his style of departure from realism is still unmatched. It took almost a decade for Britain to exhibit his work credited with pioneering new ways of seeing. Even now, his technique is classified as pretentious and hard to apprehend. Today some of Virtosu’s paintings are shown publicly in New York, London, Paris, and Barcelona. His paintings are essentially leading the creative abstract realm and accord them a place of honor alongside the work of Hilma af Klint, Kandinsky, Picasso, Mondrian, Miro...

Since the beginning, the artist has attempted to reach and to show what the eyes don’t see, but the inner voice or the soul comprehend. He is attempting to present the spiritual and the mystical. The artist states that creativity and the produced canvases are bridges between the lower and the higher world. He aims to transcend the physical sphere and produce a wider vision of awareness which includes the social, spiritual and the mystical.

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Only when the viewers understand Umm Kulthum’s story do they really connect with the painting and get Virtosu’s emotional motivation. The gestural brushstrokes express the painter’s emotion behind the painting that is loose and move in different directions to illustrate the painter’s passion plus energy in painting the piece.

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Should one look at the Abandoned canvas top circular figure, one sees that it is heavily black but, possibly, the light blue which takes up less than a quarter of the head, represents hope or the futility of hope.