Pintea Viteazul în mentalitatea tradiţională românească şi în arta populară din Maramureş
Pintea Viteazul in the Romanian Traditional Mentality and in the Folk Art of Maramures

Summary/Abstract: The paper seeks to highlight the impact that the outlaw “Pintea Viteazul” (engl. Pintea The Brave) has on the man of the traditional community, but also over the contemporary popular craftsmen preoccupied by the art of wood on resorting to synchronic and diachronic analysis. Popular creators in Maramures revitalise the prestige of the aforetime outlaw, carving him by their charmed gouge the traditional entranceway or the wooden pieces of furniture. Pintea’s chain mail, the art of wood, remind us of the outlaw’s deeds. In this context, the non-verbal language is a lot more efficient than the verbal language. Thus it contributes to the intergenerational transmission, to the revitalisation of the historical facts and legends. The legendary Pintea the Brave interacts with the popular art in Maramures, with the aesthetics of the traditional art, with certain folklore categories (ballads, legends, etc.) reinforcing the impact he currently has on the man of the traditional society. The popular art becomes a source of inspiration for talented popular sculptors of the Romanian ancestry, preoccupied with the ancestral values. The revitalisation of the aesthetics of the Romanian traditional art appears as a need of the artist to derive strength and inspiration by resorting to the history of the Romanian ancestry. Observing the ancestral values by propelling them to the future, we have the certainty that they shall live from now on and that we shall find our place in the universality.

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