Anemone: October 2012

Laurentiu Sarbu was born on April the 29th, 1936 (Constanta) and died in 2000 (Bucharest).

He was also an animation filmmaker and worked for the Animafilm studio.

Prizes: Teheran (1973), Krakow (1973) for the movie Puiul, Odense (1977) for Clopoţelul de argint. ACIN Awards 1977 (Fereastra) and 1981 (Balaurul).

"I have been in dialogue with children's literature for many years now, a genre which I consider very seriously. Every book I illustrated meant for me a challenge, a unique experience, as a writer cannot repeat his inner self from one page to another. How do I approach this literature? Where the text does not call me there is no pleasure in me to illustrate at all, so I refrain from it as I would from half measures."

Dana Schobel-Roman

Comunist title, capital drawings from Dana Schobel Roman.

Florin Noël aka Roni Noel was born on the 20th of November 1912, in Vaslui and died in 1984. He graduated the Academy of Fine Arts, Bucharest, in 1935, in Camil Ressu professor's class. He was Head of works at the Institute of Fine Arts "Nicolae Grigorescu", in Bucharest between 1950-1956.

I think Roni Noel 's whimsical style and fine water colors are best represented in the fairy tale "Doi feti cu stea in frunte". With just a few simple strokes he endowed his characters with a variety of feelings: curiosity, anger, impatience, sorrow, shrewdness, goodness, purity or evilness. I read this story so many times as a child, I could never get enough of the drawings.