Ion Theodorescu Sion

Ion TheodorescuSion was a Romanian painter and draftsman, known for his contributions to modern art and especially for his traditionalist, primitivist, handicraftinspired and Christian painting. Trained in academic art, initially an Impressionist, he dabbled in various modern styles in the years before World War I. TheodorescuSions palette was interchangeably postImpressionist, Divisionist, Realist, Symbolist, Synthetist, Fauve or Cubist, but his creation had one major ideological focus depicting peasant life in its natural setting. In time, Sion contributed to the generational goal of creating a specifically Romanian modern art, located at the intersection of folk tradition, primitivist tendencies borrowed from the West, and 20thcentury agrarian politics.

The son of a Romanian Railways brakeman and the peasantwoman Ioana Ursu, TheodorescuSion was born in Ianca, Brila County, and baptized into the Romanian Orthodox Church. On both sides, his family had origins in Transylvanias Apuseni Mountains and the Breadfield, regions at the time still part of AustriaHungary by popular account, some were Moi, that is to say ethnic Romanian herders with a distinctly rustic lifestyle. Ion spent his early childhood on the Brgan Plain, but grew up into a passionate hiker of the Carpathian Mountains.

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