Dragobete – Original Oil Painting (65 × 54 cm Canvas)
An original oil painting depicting a young child in a white dress, holding a mandarin above a bowl of gathered fruit. The composition is set within a warm, unified field, where color and form create a sense of quiet containment.
The gesture is simple yet deliberate—an act that suggests offering, selection, or pause. The surrounding elements remain balanced and still, allowing the figure and the objects to hold the focus without distraction.
The image operates between clarity and suggestion, presenting a scene that feels familiar while remaining open in meaning.
Dragobete
Vision
Dragobete draws from the Romanian spring celebration associated with love, renewal, and the anticipation of future connection. Traditionally, gestures involving flowers and gathering carry symbolic weight, linking the present to what is yet to come.
In this work, that symbolism is paired with a more grounded presence. The bowl of fruit introduces a practical dimension—suggesting that love is not only imagined or awaited, but sustained.
The painting exists between these two conditions: the poetic and the necessary. Between what is hoped for, and what must be maintained.