Zavtur Eudochia

About

Eudochia Zavtur was born in 1953 in the village of Corjova, Dubăsari. She studied at the I. Repin Republican School of Fine Arts (today the A. Plămădeală College of Fine Arts) in Chișinău (1969-1973). She graduated from the State Institute of Fine Arts and Architecture (Academy of Fine Arts) in Kyiv (1979). Since 1982, she has been a member of the Union of Fine Artists. From 1985 to 2002, she was a member of the UAP's governing council. She has excelled in all genres of art, from graphics and book illustration to easel graphics and painting, treating them with equal seriousness and, at the same time, establishing a personal stylistic manner. Through this approach, notes art critic Eugenia Florescu (2013), Eudochia Zavtur joins the constellation of lyrical artists of color who are in love with freshness, candor, sincerity, and seriousness, creating exemplary art. For Eudochia Zavtur, art becomes the form of expression of emotions, experiences, and existence. Vlad Zbârciog wrote in an article (1998) that "Eudochia Zavtur's art comes from a treasure of feeling and thought of our nation, the author creating an emotional universe of beauty. Of artistic beauty, of aesthetic beauty, of human beauty." Among the most renowned graphic and book illustration works, we mention: "Folk Poetry" by M. Eminescu (1984, 1987), "About Love" by M. Eminescu (1986), "About Love" by Gr. Vieru (1988), the "Master Manole" series (1994), "Miorița" by V. Alecsandri (1997), etc. We cannot fail to mention Eudochia Zavtur's flowers and peasant girls: the Lilac series (2005), Still Life with White Roses (2002), Abundance (2001), Loneliness (2008), etc. Eudochia Zavtur is recognized both nationally and internationally as one of the most important contemporary visual artists from the Republic of Moldova. Eudochia Zavtur passed away on February 15, 2015.