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Medusa and Perseus original art Paula Craioveanu Neo Mythology

2026

$600
£458.69
€535.34
CA$869.67
A$883.56
CHF 492.33
MX$10,697.32
NOK 6,019.70
SEK 5,908.06
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Medusa and Perseus part of my Neo Mythology series. Shipped rolled in a tube, well packed, from Europe, by DHL to the US and by EMS to Europe and rest of the world. Medusa and Perseus is part of my ongoing series Neo Mythology, an exploration of classical myths through a contemporary visual language. Rather than illustrating familiar episodes from Greek mythology, the series seeks to reinterpret these ancient narratives as living archetypes that continue to reflect modern human experience. In this work, Medusa and Perseus are not portrayed as opposing characters locked in a single moment of conflict. Instead, they emerge as layered psychological presences, their identities overlapping and dissolving into one another. The composition abandons literal storytelling in favor of symbolic fragments, suggesting memory, transformation, and the ambiguity that surrounds every myth. The painting is built through expressive brushwork and a restrained palette dominated by the tension between luminous red and deep ultramarine blue. The intense chromatic contrast creates a visual dialogue between presence and absence, permanence and change. The figures are intentionally incomplete, inviting the viewer to reconstruct the image and, in doing so, participate in the myth itself. My practice draws inspiration from the economy of classical line drawing while embracing the spontaneity of gestural abstraction and contemporary expressionism. Rather than recreating antiquity, I use mythology as a visual vocabulary through which timeless themes—identity, power, fear, sacrifice, and transformation—can be reconsidered within a modern context. Neo Mythology proposes that myths are not fixed historical narratives but evolving cultural symbols. Each work in the series fragments and reassembles familiar figures, allowing them to exist beyond their traditional stories. In Medusa and Perseus, the myth is no longer about hero and monster alone; it becomes a meditation on the fragile boundary between victim and victor, beauty and terror, humanity and legend. Artist Statement "I started by painting interiors, being interested in space and perspective through my studies. These scenes evolved, when I added the human figure. I focused more on the human figure and its relation to the background. The human figure is more present than ever in my paintings now. As a woman artist I’ve been preoccupied with the female form and its imagery. One of my goals was to capture the solitary moments and the nude’s relation to the surrounding space. My interest turned from depicting the space to rendering the atmosphere and the scene as a whole, the feeling a woman adds to the environment: warmth, desire, joy, a feeling of power and control, or the opposite – sadness, despair. Here is a collection of figurative paintings, exploring the nudes in interior spaces, seeing the nudes from my perspective, as a woman artist, considering the physical and spiritual realities of a woman’s body, in a new level of intimacy. My paintings are the opposite of objectifying a woman’s or a man’s anatomy. Painted works, featuring female nudes and a also men nudes, in a reversal of the male-artist/female-muse pattern, validate the feminine experience, defining myself through it. I was interested in how one experiences the body in a sensual form, and later focused on my own body, as I experience it myself, looking into the mirror and reconnecting. My work challenges the tradition of the nude by capturing my point of view, the gaze of a female painter, by using photography, drawings, sketches, and painting on canvas, for, both physical and psychological exploration. My art tries to create a visual language for emotion, beauty, feelings of intimacy and in the same time autonomy, captured with paint and vivid colors. My intense interest in colour and the gestures of the brush strokes are the means I see and convey the subjects in space, as living, passionate beings." Paula Craioveanu Biography: Paula Craioveanu is a Romanian artist, born in 1976. She grew up surrounded by art and inspiration, in a family of artists. Trained in Bucharest and New York as an architect and painter. Holds a degree in Architecture and a PhD in Visual Arts. Presently working as a full-time artist. At the age of 16, Paula Craioveanu moved to New York, where she came in contact with New York’s vibrant art scene, she graduated from high school and then studied at Parsons School of Design. Then she moved back to Romania where she studied for the next 6 years at the Architecture University in Bucharest and graduated with a degree in Architecture in 2000. In 2013 she earned a Ph.D in Visual Arts at the University of Arts in Bucharest with the theme “Geometry of Space in 17th century Dutch painting”. After this, she dedicated her full time to art, and showed her talent to the art world. Paula Craioveanu works in acrylic and oil paints, but also pen and ink or tempera works on paper. She regularly participates in shows and exhibitions in galleries along the East and West Coast of the United States, like bG Gallery Santa Monica, Dacia Gallery and Perseus Gallery in New York. Paula Craioveanu’s work is featured on the two most exclusive online art marketplaces, 1stDibs and Artsy. Over the course of 20 years, Paula Craioveanu has created several painting series: “Abstract”, “Interiors”, “Nude in Interior”, “NeoMythology”. Paula Craioveanu’s work has been placed in private collection around the world, both in Europe and in the United States. Today, Paula Craioveanu has set up studios and works in Bucharest and New York. Find original Paula Craioveanu paintings, works on paper and other art on 1stDibs. Next: Works on display - December 2024, Context Art Miami.
  • Creator:
    Paula Craioveanu (1976, Romanian)
  • Creation Year:
    2026
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 27.5 in (69.85 cm)Width: 19.5 in (49.53 cm)
  • Medium:
    Ink,Tempera,Archival Paper
  • Movement & Style:
    Contemporary
  • Period:
    2010-
  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    Forest Hills, NY
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: Romanian-American artist. PhD in Visual Arts.1stDibs: LU2240217982012

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