Bleu 1960

Natalia Dumitresco’s painting 'Bleu' is a landscape of grays, whites, and blues, laid down in thick, deliberate strokes, creating a surface that feels both solid and ethereal. The painting is all about the materiality of the medium. The impasto is so pronounced it's like a topographical map. You can almost feel the artist’s hand moving across the canvas, building up layer upon layer of color. There’s a grid of black lines woven through it all, like the infrastructure of a city viewed from above. Look at the lower-left corner where the blue is most intense. It's a grounding element, anchoring the rest of the painting. Dumitresco, working alongside artists like Bram van Velde, clearly engaged with the wider European abstract tradition. 'Bleu' is a reminder that art is always in conversation with itself, evolving through dialogue, interpretation, and the simple act of applying paint to canvas. What that conversation *means* is up to you to decide.