Artwork by ANTON BUTNARU
Thirty eight years ago, my best friend’s father who was a mosaic tile worker all his life, but a self taught painter, being passioned by the French and Italian old masters, showed me a few reproductions made by him, after paintings by Constable, Boucher and one by Caravaggio’s Saint Jerome Writing. The sunset came through his room’s curtain and a red drapery and suddenly the color of it was a brilliant orange. …
…I think because my painting is a humble attempt from someone aged 65, who tries to become better at understanding the way the Old Masters painted
