Woman Ironing 

This is a painting by Corneliu Baba, titled "Woman Ironing". It features a woman, rendered in a style that blurs the line between realism and abstraction. The most striking symbol is the domestic iron, an object laden with associations of labor, care, and the smoothing out of life's wrinkles. The posture of the woman—bent and focused—echoes poses of exhaustion and quiet fortitude, reminiscent of the stoic figures found in Millet's paintings of rural laborers. We see these themes echoing through time, from classical depictions of burdened Atlas figures to the modern-day portrayals of working women. The act of ironing, transforming the wrinkled into the smooth, has resurfaced time and again in art, evolving from simple functionality to a charged symbol of societal roles and personal sacrifice.