Nora Steriadi: Revisiting the Biography of a Romanian Decorative Arts Pioneer
Nora Steriadi: Revisiting the Biography of a Romanian Decorative Arts Pioneer

Summary/Abstract: This paper brings into discussion a creator with an internationally renowned career, who has not benefited from a re-actualized view upon her work in recent years and was unjustly forgotten: Nora Steriadi. She worked in the first half of the 20th century, especially in the interwar period, as a decorative artist, expressing herself in old techniques such as embroidery, pottery and mosaic, which she updated in accordance with modern aesthetics, starting from local traditional bases. She was appreciated by art critics, exhibiting both in the country and abroad, in Paris, Sèvres, Barcelona, New York and Milan. The recovered view on her artistic endeavor, which lists her exhibition activity, also aims at questioning how Nora Steriadi was perceived in the epoch as a primitive, self-taught artist to fit in the Romanian national identity program. At the same time, the research helps to illustrate the condition of the decorative artist in the aforementioned space-time landmarks.

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