Streiru Niculiță

Niculiță Streiru liked to paint the people he knew—not their fancy clothes, but their tired hands and the way sunlight hit the back of a neck. He had a habit of leaving faces half-finished, as if the story mattered more than a perfect face. The best way into his world is Personificare, a painting where a lone figure sits on a wooden chair in a room that’s half shadow. Look for the way the light falls across the floorboards; it tells you everything about the hour and the mood.