2 Washing the Netsengraving zinc, 1963

3 Portrait 1 wood engraving ink 1963

4 Still Life with Newspaper   – ink 1963

5 Rest   – engraving on wood 1961

6 Drying the Nets lithograph 1963

7 Girl Portrait aquatinta engraving 1961

Gradually I discovered that the line has a wonderful quality, that of excellently expressing movement, changes in the physical and spiritual space around us. In engraving the black line has a maximum force of expression and energy, and when it moves freely it can create tensions, suggestions of ideas and feelings.

“The artist maintains a characteristic sobriety and central economy even when her work touches on areas layered with exuberance and visual and tactile comfort (especially in textile works). Her works prove that the spirit is cultivated, carry a clarity, lucidity and modesty, which knows through the telescope of the senses, to transform the work from a visual art problem to demonstrate how there could be other diverse possibilities, whilst occupying yourself with the same work.”

“The author shows the same unique quality that Odilon Redon called “the effects of the abstract line, which acts directly on the spirit.”

MIHAI DRISCU ( the program “Chronicle of Fine Arts” , radio Bucharest , July 29 , 1983 )

8 Fire engraving zinc 1980



9 Water engraving zinc 1980



10 Impact engraving in aluminium 1983



11 The Abyss   engraving in aluminium 1983



12 Plain engraving in aluminium 1983



13 Expansion engraving in aluminium 1983



14 Hill engraving in aluminium   1983



15 Reeds engraving in aluminium 1983



16 Rustling engraving in aluminium 1983



17 Grass engraving in aluminium 1983



18 Engraving 8 engraving in aluminium 1983



19 Runners linoleum engraving 1975



20 Choir linoleum engraving 1975



21 Abundant Harvest linoleum engraving 1975



22 Women with Guitars engraving in linoleum  1975



23 Running engraving in linoleum 1975


24 Climbing Down the Stairs engraving in linoleum 1975

“Rodica Chisu is one of the fairly rare artists who in the moment they are convinced that they have formed an idea that can become the foundation of a creation, with notable consistency they chase twists and enroll them in the forming image.”

CRISTINA ANGELESCU (excerpt from the Romanian newspaper Week, July 22, 1983)



25 Getting Dark  oil on canvas 1980



26 Traveling Birds ink 1964



27 Horses oil on canvas 1978



28 Black Lines gouache 2005



29 The Hill cardboard 1974



30 Swamp ink 1980



31 Portrait 2ink 1974



32 Builders at Rest ink 1964



33 Tree of Silenceink 1982



34 The Blue River color ink 2000



35 The Red River color ink 2000



36 Forest ink 1974



37 Quiet Meadowcolor ink 1983



38 Interrupted Sounds ink 1998



39 Evening Windcolor ink 2007



40 Intersections 4 ink 2007



41 Echo ink 1984



42 Bushes ink 1980



43 Forest 5 ink 1980



44 Tensionink 1984



45 Forest 3 ink 1978



46 The Joy of the Morning ink 1980



47 Cold Rainink 1980



74 The Lake oil on canvas, 1980

I sewed lines on various textiles or combined them into environmental structures, wanting to suggest fragments of nature that I have memorized in time and I rediscovered them as having expressive meanings.

“The themes of the engraving, occasionally revisited in the textile works, are clearly defined: the seams and reliefs, are not only virtuoso works, but also show the possibilities to create an ambient atmosphere the room in which the subject maintains its role as the ideational center of the entire image.”

DAN GRIGORESCU (excerpt from the Romanian newspaper Romania Libera, August 8 , 1983)



49 Raffia Tapestry detail 2 2008



50 Forest silk stitches 1980



51 Wheat textile relief 1980



52 The Wood at the Gate textile ambient 1981



53 The Tree stitched wood 1981



54 The Burned Tree   ambient textile 1982



55 Stubble Raffia Tapestry 2007


56 Horea’s Holm ambient textile 1982

57 Lines Woolen Stitches 1980

58 A Field of FlowersStitched wool 1983

In many works I was attracted by the linear textures applied over the colored background, having the impression that the ideas that formed the basis of the creative process can be transferred in this way directly to the viewer.
The line visible or hidden under the color spots, can direct a free movement of the color spots, giving the painting dynamics and expression.

“Her pictures give one poetic implications in the landscape, and incontestable capacity to contain the values of the lyrical parts of the world.“

DAN GRIGORESCU (excerpt from the newspaper Romania Libera, August 8, 1983)



59 Large Forests oil on canvas 1980



60 To the Beach oil on canvas 1981



61 The Boy with the Kite oil on cardboard 1974



62 Sunset oil on canvas 1981



63 The Plain oil on cardboard 1978



64 Horses oil on canvas 1978



65 The Young People gouache 1977



66 Double Portrait gouache 1964



67 Panic gouache 1979



68 The Student Oil on cardboard 1978



69 Condense oil on canvas 1978



70 The Harlequin   oil on cardboard 1978



71 The Strolling Musicians 2 gouache 1972



72 Sun Spots oil on canvas 1979



73 The Strolling Musicians 2 gouache 1977



74 The Lake oil on canvas, 1980



75 Wheat Field oil on cardboard 1978



76 Crickets Field acrylic on canvas 2016



77 Singing Fieldoil on cardboard 1978



78 Sunflower Field acrylic 2013


79 Woman with Cello 2 gouache 1993

80 Studio 2017

Movement is the most beautiful quality of nature. It includes renewal, transformation, novelty, surprise, strength, refreshment, vitality. The whole universe is moving. Even rest is in fact only an accidental defeat of matter.
Lines can be strong in motion, they can change shape, they can speed up or slow down movement, they can direct or stop it in the image.

“The image is rigorously constructed, with sight of the ability to order gestural rational spontaneity with which spots of color lay on the page. Mobility as with tonal intensity, leads one to recall a certain fervor, suggests inner tension in the process, not exterior agitation.”

OCTAVIAN BARBOSA (excerpt from Modern Dictionary of Romanian Artists – Bucharest, 1970)



81 Portrait 3 mixed media 1989



82 Under the Scorching Sun oil on canvas 1975



83 Climbing Down gouache 2003



84 Roofs mixed media 1970



85 The Cityscape mixed media 1970



86 The Mother with Child oil on canvas 1976



87 Embroidered Blouse mixed media 1979



88 The Blind Man oil on canvas 1982



89 The Runners oil on canvas 1985



90 Landscape in Riga 1 gouache 1971



91 Landscape in Riga 2 gouache 1971



92 The Wedding of Zamfira oil on canvas 1976



93 The Boy with the Book mixed media 1966



94 The Traces of Autumn acrylic on canvas 2013



95 The Blue Grass acrylic on canvas 2016



96 Summer Night gouache 1978



97 The Cranes Return gouache 1968



98 The Morning Joy acrylic on canvas 2017



99 Birds and Nests gouache 1968



100 Horses oil on canvas 1975



101 Leaves gouache 1967



102 The Blue Bird mixed media 1967



103 Birds gouache 1969



104 Anniversary oil on canvas 1978


105 Meditation oil on cardboard 1979

106 Transient Thought gouache 2006

107 Woman with Cello oil on cardboard 1978

In 1977 I made a group of works on the 100th anniversary of the Romanian War of Independence, convinced that the linear texture can help me create suggestions for moving actions, relatively figurative, dynamic images segmented over time – inspired by the letters on the front of the soldiers that appeared in the poetry of the time.

“A few plans of interest that the artist has in view: the chromatic plains with an intensive and expressive focus, divided by the horizon, the rapport between the surfaces subordinate to a dramatic, clashing atmosphere; the graphical structure is based on a equal duct, nervous, often abbreviated, just like with the repeating symbols (signifying soldiers, military equipment, convoys, clashes of fighting, the ground covered with dead and wounded, etc.); the literary metaphor equates to “identity“ respective to the work’s title, allusive to the text, of the war front, especially for the ordinary masses, or in the verses of the epic poem.“

HORIA HORSIA (excerpt from the Romanian magazine “ Arta “ nr. 6 , heading “ Simeze “ 1977)



108 Fragment of an Epic Poem color ink 1978



109 We Move Forward gouache 1977



110 Neither Way to Go Nor Place to Sit  ink 1977



111 At 3 O’Clock We Head Out ink 1976



112 In Front of Us Was a Steep Bank ink 1976



113 At Dawn We Attacked oil on cardboard 1977



114 The Historical Sequence  oil on canvas 1976



115 The Battlefield color ink 1976



116 Soldiers oil on cardboard 1977



117 The Fragment of an Epic Poem color ink 1978



118 In the Valley of Tears the Night Thunders  1977



119 It Was the Afternoon and the Middle of Summer 1977



120 The Wind of Battle Was Beating oil on cardboard 1977



121 The Wind was Blowing Through the Night 1977



122 And Turks and Us Tore the Leads Through the Sky   1977



123 We Had not Frozen Hearts in our Chest 1977



124 The Battle Scene oil on canvas 1977



125 On the Field We No Longer Could See the Grass 1977



126 Was War and Death Here Saga   1977



127 We Carried with Us the Wounded 1977


128 My Thoughts were at Home oil on cardboard 1977

129 The Enemies Fled in Disorder oil on cardboard 1977

In a certain period of time I was interested in different groups of lines of different characters: thin, thick, straight, curved, vertical or oblique, that can easily create expressive meanings in still life works.


130 The Vase of Flowers   gouache 1966

131 Still Life with Fish gouache 1964

132 Still Life with Knitting Needles gouache 1967

133 Still Life with Grapes gouache 1964
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134 Still Life with Fruit Bowl   gouache 1969



135 Clay Pots mixed media 1970



136 Still Life with Green Apples gouache 1966



137 Still Life with Bottles gouache 1966



138 Black Ceramic   mixed media 1970



139 Still Life 1 oil on cardboard 1969



140 Still Houseplant gouache 1967



141 Still Life 3 ink 1972



142 Still Life 2   gouache 1968



143 Still Life with Lemons gouache 1966



144 The Moon and Flowers gouache 1978



145 Still Life with Oval Table ink 1968


146 Still Life with Chess Pieces   gouache 1967

147 Still Life 4 ink 1964

The lines are like a wind above the paper or canvas. Registering freely in the painting, they can suggest emotions, feelings of joy, anxiety, sound movements, rustling of the leaves, sensations of calm or stress, disappearances of ideas, emphasizing the life of the depths.



148 By the Sea oil on canvas 1985



149 Dusk mixed media 1966



150 The Path   oil on canvas 1982



151 The Nocturne mixed media 1965



152 Dawn oil on canvas 1970



153 The Beach acrylic on canvas 1993



154 The Cranes   mixed media 1967



155 Return from Work oil on canvas 1980



156 Old Sibiu oil on canvas 1978



157 Orchard gouache 1967



158 The Village in the Valley   ink 1965



159 Houses in Constanta ink 1964



160 The Beach in Mangalia mixed media 1965



161 In the Park gouache 1967



162 Houses in Rasinari 1   mixed media 1969



163 Houses in Rasinari 2 mixed media 1969



164 Glimmer of Wind acrylic on canvas 2017



165 The Woman in Blue gouache 2007



166 Roots  oil on canvas 1974



167 People of Rasinari oil on canvas 1979

“The motif of the sun is in fact a permanent symbol of life, energy and becoming. The “Butterfly“ symbolizes the reverie, tonic nature of aspiring toward a lyrical purity… The use of trapezoids in the composition evoke the butterfly form floating with open wings.“

“Variations on the same theme bring so many aspects of both pictorial and poetic composition. The images carry a musical charge, accentuating these properties by carrying a vibrancy and motion that spreads the message for a love of life.“

HORIA HORSIA (excerpt from the Romanian newspaper Scanteia, May 27, 1973)



168 The Sun on the Table 2 mixed media 1970



169 The Sun on the Table 5 mixed media 1980



170 The Sun on the Table  oil on canvas 1982



171 The Sun on the Table 6 acrylic on canvas 2012



172 The Sun on the Table 4 oil on cardboard 1978



173 The Sun on the Table 1 gouache 1964



174 The Sun on the Table 3  oil on canvas 1974



175 The Sun Among the Trees oil on canvas 1972



176 Sun 3 oil on canvas 1973



177 Sun 4 oil on canvas 1974



178 Sun 1  oil on canvas 1969



179 Sun 2 oil on canvas 1970



180 Sun 5 oil on canvas 1974



181 Black Sun oil on canvas 1974



182 Eclipse  oil on canvas 1970



183 Warm Day oil on canvas 1970



184 Gate of the Sun mixed media 1980



185 August Sun oil on canvas 1971



186 Project Entrace Gate for Sibiu County  1985



187 Entrance Gate for Sibiu County steel 1985



188 At the Personal Exhibition Bucharest 1983



189 Butterfly on Sand oil on canvas 1970



190 Butterfly in Garden  oil on canvas 1973



191 Yellow Butterfly gouache 1964


192 Blue Butterfly oil on canvas 1973

193 Fallen Butterfly oil on canvas 1973

194 White Butterfly  oil on canvas 1973

“A painting teaches us nothing; it attracts, surprises, exalts, leads imperceptibly and out of love to the need to live beautifully; it elevates and restores the spirit. That’s all.”

ODILON REDON, Excerpt from Romanian Art Journal

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES

HORIA HORSIA : the magazine “ ART “ №.8, category “ Workshop “, Bucharest, 1973

OCTAVIAN BARBOSA : “Dictionary of  Romanian Contemporary Artists“ the Meridian publishing house , Bucharest, 1976

MARIN MIHALACHE : “ Romanian Painting “ the Meridian publishing house , Bucharest, 1976

The magazine “ ART “ №. 1-2 , Bucuresti 1977

ION ITU : “ Artists Sibieni “ Meridian publishing house , Bucuresti 1977

HORIA HORSIA : the magazine “ ART “ №. 6, heading “ Simeze “, Bucharest, 1977

VASILE FLOREA : “ the Art of Romanian Modern and Contemporary “ Meridian publishing house, Bucharest, 1982

RODICA IRIMIE FOTA : “ Shapes and Colors “ Transylvania magazine , Sibiu 1983

ALEXANDER LUNGU : the magazine “ ART “ №. 8 , category “ Workshop “ 1983

ROMANIAN CONTEMPORARY GRAPHIC ARTISTS : album published by the Union of Artists of Romania, the Fund of Plastic

Artis, publishing Art, Graphics , Bucharest 1983

“ART” magazine nr. 8, Bucharest 1988