Abstract:
The article is focused on the creation of three plastic artists from the Republic of Moldova, who would have celebrated their centenary this year - Igor Vieru (1923-1988), Ilia Bogdesco (1923 2010), Mihail Petric (1923-2005). Their contribution is a significant one for national art, each one leaving a considerable mark in the field and genre they work in – graphics, thematic painting, landscape, etc. Several aspects and factors of the creative process of each individual artist are mentioned in the article. The thematic topics addressed are described, the components of the plastic language used in the process of creating a work of art, and the types of plastic and technical realization of the works are revealed. Depending on the historical period, the illustrative-realistic vision in painting (Igor Vieru, Mihail Petric) is replaced by a decorative one, inspired by Romanian plastic folklore and the aesthetic concepts of modern European art (post-impressionism, Fauvism, etc.). In the creation of the graphic artist Ilie Bogdesco, who prefers a „classic” work technique (engraving on copper plate, etc.), technical procedures and stylistic features not specific to contemporary national graphics are encountered. He practices calligraphy in book illustration and develops a new author's technique, based on the text from the national medieval miniatures. Poets in soul and philosophers in thought, the celebrated artists remain trailblazers for the plastic arts in the Republic of Moldova, who have left a unique spiritual trail in their track record.
