Meridional Landscape With Ruins 

Octav Angheluta created this watercolor, "Meridional Landscape With Ruins." It is a composition of ruins set under a sky pregnant with clouds. The materiality of the paint contributes to a sense of decay and transience, evoking feelings of nostalgia and contemplation. The artist's use of line and color constructs a semiotic field in which each element functions as a sign. The muted browns, grays, and whites symbolize a world in decline, while the gestural brushstrokes create movement and a sense of incompleteness. The ruins themselves act as signifiers, pointing to past civilizations and the inevitable passage of time. Angheluta destabilizes traditional landscape painting through the fragmentation of form. By not clearly defining the ruins, he challenges our perception and invites us to reflect on the nature of memory. The painting explores how ruin sites become cultural texts loaded with meaning and history. The work stands as a meditation on temporality and the cyclical nature of civilization.