His grand-grand-grandfather was painting churches in 1800

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(Free-Press-Release.com) October 27, 2009 -- Ioan Lado de Zakal, painter, born in 1831 painted many churches in Romania. Almost 180 years later, Sever Iustian, his grand-grand-grandson is an expressionist painter. Born in Romania in 1948 he is now living in Paris. He is member of Grand Palais, the famous French Artists' Society.

His father was from Transylvania, the north-western part of Romania, his mother was from Greece and he was born in 1948 in the south-eastern part of the country, Constanta.

"I have graduated in Cluj (Transilvania) cause my father did not want to conceive one can have an education in any other part of the country. I was lucky to have a Greek mother, she gave me the talent, logic, humor and a taste for finer things in life. I was a teacher in Romania for 10 years. I had 4-5 personal exhibitions and I am a member of the Romanian Fine Art Society, in Constanta. In France, I had 7 personal exhibitions, I was present 5 times in the Independent Artists Fair and I have received 3 international awards."

His paintings are featured in the Art Museum of Constanta, Romania as well as part of many private collections.

His style is optimistic, soothing while showing a solid composition (like Greek architecture, he likes to say). His paintings are contemplative and mysterious because the human is there without being represented. He likes discreet, luminous colors, so barely different than white it leaves you with a feeling of imponderable, diffuse warmth.

The heavy brush strokes, delicate hues dominated by a solar yellow always present in his paintings create a distinctive style, difficult to miss. He is using oil on canvas of large sizes having landscapes as favorite subject, be they from Romania or more exotic (Romania, Greece, Morocco, Spain) but always warm, always serene and definitely close to the sea shore.

He is now present online, you can visit his website at http://faltiska.net/iustian