SIMBOL, METAFORĂ ȘI DĂRUIRE ÎN LUPTA CU ÎNGERUL
SYMBOL, METAPHOR AND DEDICATION IN THE BATTLE WITH THE ANGEL

Summary/Abstract: In Oradea there are no contemporary art critics who make an analysis, a careful and complex radiography of the cultural phenomenon from the perspective of studying current artistic individualities. Oradea’s art criticism feeds only fragmentarily from the past, more precisely from the 80s, without taking into account the fact that today, contemporary art is developing at the same pace as society, causing new dilemmas about what creativity and originality mean, in relation to the past, with the new technologies that are also manifesting themselves in contemporary art. The current artists from Oradea who have been active in the field of creation for the last 20 years are not presented to the public from the perspective of art criticism, who should pay special attention to the current cultural phenomenon and analyze new axiological perspectives brought to light and explored in contemporary visual arts. In the happiest case, contemporary artists are presented in droves, in exhibitions, group cultural events, in which the curator exposes his concept, which seems to become much more important than the work of art itself. Unsurprisingly, the artist together with his work become only an annex of the concept launched by the art critic, an additional material that develops or clarifies that conceptual text of the curator, and the work as a uniqueness becomes invisible precisely because of its complexity that transcends the content of the text. discussion, thus neglecting the individuality and particularities of each author. In order to counteract this lack of perspective of the current Oradea art critics, I chose to present the work entitled Symbol metaphor and dedication in the fight with the angel in which I will present a series of paintings by the painter Paul Blînda. The artist Paul Blînda, takes visual elements from everyday life, from the issues of contemporary society, mixing contemporary symbolic elements specific to an individual visual universe that transcends the everyday, in which are present the sacredness loaded with metaphorical and metaphysical connotations. Analyzing only a small part of the work of the visual artist Paul Blânda is a modest approach to study the complex aspects that structure only this series of his works, which can not be brutally separated by his character and intellectual concerns, between which there is an interdependence sometimes invisible, which is the thread of Ariadne that leads the viewer to miraculous, revealing, mystical experiences.

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