Street front in an imaginary green city

I have just renewed on Etsy a large-size linocut I made a couple of years ago, entitled "Street front in an imaginary green city". This large-size linocut work is part of a series imagining street fronts through the combination of my favored independent lino plates depicting architectural elements. The separate houses, towers, and synagogue are inspired by actual places in east-central Europe, from the cities of Cluj-Napoca, Sibiu, and Dej (Transylvania, Romania) but also Torun (Poland). The unifying elements are color - in this case the green paper, and graphic interventions in silver for the contours.

I find it difficult to work directly on large formats, so my larger works are created through combinations (different linocut plates, like in this case, or collage, like in several others works you can see on my website www.anamariagruia.ro).
It is an appealing sofa-size artwork that will bring color and joy.
Dimensions: 26 x 68.5 cm (10.2 x 26.9 inches).

Street front in an imaginary green city, greenery 2017, emerald green, large-size linocut, architecture, original artwork by Goddess Gruia

Detail of linocut by Ana-Maria Gruia

Detail of linocut by Ana-Maria Gruia

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"Night in the city" lincocut

"Night in the city" is inspired by my delicious trip to Torun, in Poland, depicting part of a street front from the town center. The linocut plate has been carved in 2011 and was used in the making of a graphic works series part of an exhibition I had that year in Cluj. This individual plate though, through its format and decorative effect, has been subsequently used for independent print, such as this one, dated 2014, made with bright green oil typographic ink.

For more on the sources of inspiration of works of the "About Toruń, gingerbread, and Copernicus" exhibition, see the "about Torun" video I made about it! 

Ana-Maria Gruia's "About Torun"

This is a short video I made to show how inspiration works, from things one sees, to drawings, and final art works. The example focuses on one of my art projects, born after a visit to Poland's lovely medieval town of Torun, birthplace of Copernicus and the (disputed) home of gingerbread. Here is the result, a series of linocut works with graphic interventions, that were part of an exhibition in Cluj:

Despre Toruń, expozitie la Turnul Croitorilor, 7 mai 2011, ora 17

Ana a fost în Polonia şi i-a plăcut.

În expoziţia de la turn ne va povesti despre Toruń cu cuvinte, imagini şi turtă dulce. Oraşul, cu arhitectura lui de cărămidă, este locul naşterii lui Copernicus şi unul dintre cele mai importante centre de producere a turtei dulci, cu tradiţie încă din epoca medievală.

Lucrările sunt realizate în tehnică mixtă, combinând linogravură şi desen.

Organizatori/organizers: Asociaţia Socio-culturală apARTe, Primăria Cluj-Napoca, Centrul de Limbă şi Cultură Poloneză. Sponsor: Kamart.

Ana visited Poland and she liked it there. Her works in this exhibition tell the tale of Toruń, Copernicus, and ginger bread (there will also be a tasting, of the latter, naturally).