20th Century art comes to life

A Romanian born artist, Nicolae Vasilescu living in Canada, has his painting exhibits on display at Decebal Art Gallery. All the paintings are original oil paintings made on canvas or wood. There are no reproductions or prints of them. His paintings are known for their originality and quality. Not a single painting is repeated. Though he prefers using oil paintings, he has also worked with acrylic and water colors as well. The paintings are colorful and have a lively presence. One look at it and it evokes happiness from within.

The entire collection started from impressionism and went on to surrealism, abstractionism, eroticism, still life, cubism and landscape painting.Over 60 painting exhibits are on display and over 40 of them are for sale. His works of art have collectors from all over the world. The paintings can be bought for those less than 10,000 $ USD with PayPal. Others can be purchased with Wire Payment.

Every painting is an original idea and is quality personified. Oil paints or acrylic on canvas and wood with or without gold are used to create the paintings. The paintings primarily focus on surrealist, cubist, impressionist, nudist, still life and religious (icons) paintings.

The Decebal Art Gallery was made in the summer of 2008 and is based in Canada. This art gallery is a father and son venture and both of them share the same name. However, Nicolae Vasilescu Sr. is the owner of the art gallery website. It is updated almost every month to make room for more new paintings. The Decebal Art Gallery is a permanent art exhibit.

Nicolae Vasilescu started painting at the age of ten and since then touched the lives of people with his art works. At the age of 14, he won a children's art competition and was presented with a gold medal from the then Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi. He went to The Bucharest College of Art at the age of 15. He became a Visual Arts Teacher in Asbestos and Danville (Quebec) and taught for a period of three years.

He has acquired experience for over 50 years as an artist in places like Romania, Italy, Quebec and Ontario. He has exhibited his works at Musee Laurier (Quebec) and Galerie Christin(Toronto) in Canada. He is now the caretaker at PERI Canada, Toronto and has been holding this post for a long time. Nicolae Vasilescu Jr. is an artist who is self taught.

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18th Century Italian Art in Verona until April 9th

The countdown has started for the end of Il Settecento a Verona, the exhibition that since November 26th and still until April 9th introduces its visitors to the rich artistic period of the eighteenth century in the city of Romeo and Juliet. The showing entitled "The nobility of painting" focuses on the contribution to Italian art that has resulted from the Settecento in the city and how Verona differentiated itself once again from the powerful influence of Venice.

In the Verona art galleries of Palazzo della Gran Guardia it is therefore possible to discover the work of artists from city like Antonio Rotrari and Giambettino Cignaroli, to whom organizers have dedicated a vast space where visitors can see paintings, designs and old documents that help reconstruct the story of art in Verona.

Among these works, some of the portraits that made Rotari famous and that won him not only Catherine the Great , Empress of Russia's respect, but also that of the vast majority of the European artistic community." The portraits of young females showcased in the exhibition surprise for its capacity of transmitting the feelings and the various models' state of mind.

Il Settecento a Verona also dedicates a special space to the Venetian artist Giambattista Tiepolo, one of the most significant representatives of the art from Italy in the century of lights and who exported the prosperity of Italian art in countries like Spain.

Within the Tiepolo room it is particularly interesting to see the virtual representation of "Trionfo di Ercole", Hercules' Triumph, a fresco painted in 1760 that was destroyed during the Second World War that has been rebuilt thanks to photographic documentation and new technologies. The fresco is now visible as it should have been in the ceiling of the Palazzo Canossa in Verona, its original place.

The Veneto Region was, in fact, one of the most important centers in all of Italy for the development of this movement that overcame the previous period starting in the seventeenth century when the region started differentiating itself from the rest of the country mostly in terms of color palettes.

Another section is dedicated to the genre of veduta, a movement originated in the 1500 that flourished in the eighteenth century and that meant the upgrade of landscapes from background image to true stars of paintings that are now showcased as some of the main works of art and what to see in Verona guides.
Among these, some of the works painted by Luca Carlevarijs and Bernardo Bellotto.

The exhibition that is going to remain open until April 9th in Verona is one of extreme importance for the richness of works it shows, and is of mandatory visit for lovers art lovers who find themselves in Verona during the months of Spring.