The Aesthetics of National Communism in Romania. The official representation in visual arts (1965-1989)
The Aesthetics of National Communism in Romania. The official representation in visual arts (1965-1989)

Summary/Abstract: The Romanian cultural word was irremediable marked by the communist regime ofNicolae Ceauşescu’s that started as a breath of fresh air for the artistic domain, and ended tobe oppressive also because of the imposed aesthetics. From the early 70s the figure ofCeauşescu and of his wife Elena, started to be more and more present as a subject in thecultural press of the time and in exhibition. By the 80s, the dogmatic formulas ofrepresentation were supposed to be ideologically accurate and were subjected to scrutiny toa committee formed by artist and official of the communist party. On festive occasions thehead of the Artists Union had a public positions to encourage the production of works inwhich the Romanian ruler to appear as an exemplary hero of the nation. Such analyze ofcontext has the purpose to give us a wider picture of Romanian cultural background that canhelp to better understand the premises of the Romanian art scene after the fall of thecommunist regime.

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