Apcar Baltazar: scrieri despre artă decorativă
Apcar Baltazar: Writings on Decorative Arts

Summary/Abstract: Despite his short life, Apcar Baltazar (1880-1909) stood out due to his prolific career that combined artistic and theoretical activity. He painted at an intense pace and experimented various artistic techniques and mediums: posters, book illustrations, set design, and costumes. His artistic oeuvre was doubled by a substantial activity as a theoretician: author of art studies, dealing with themes of interest to artists and writers, (national style, relationship of art with artistic sources), reporter of the most important artistic events in the capital. The paper analyses Apcar Baltazar's writings on decorative art in the cultural, social and institutional context of the early 20th century, in which art and art history were produced and "consumed". Attempting to avoid approaching the artist's oeuvre solely through biographical details, I will discuss Apcar Baltazar's artistic and theoretical works in relation to the interests of the cultural and artistic milieu of the time and the context in which the author was formed and activated.

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