Aida Tomescu (born October 1955) is an Australian contemporary artist[1][2] who is known for her abstract paintings, collages, drawings and prints.
The Institute in Bucharest provided its students with academic training focusing on the structure, composition, and overall approach to making works (Hart, 2006, 10).
As an artist who regarded drawing as an important part of her practice, she found the experience of working with etching plates liberating as she had to "curb any craving for precision and for controlling an image".
Art critic Sonia Barron, writing for The Canberra Times, was disappointed in the exhibition but found at least that Tomescu communicated "a spiritual anxiety in her dark expressionist canvases".
[13] In 2009 her work was the subject of a major survey exhibition, Aida Tomescu: Paintings and Drawings at the Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University.
[16] Tomescu's graphic works were included in the major survey of prints and drawings Out of Australia at the British Museum, London in 2011.
[1]Art critic for The Sydney Morning Herald John McDonald wrote on August 25, 2012: Aida Tomescu, who is consolidating a reputation as one of Australia's most formidable living abstract painters...is making the point that she is not interested in arbitrary "mark-making" — she is after something she calls an "image".
[19][20]Christopher Allen in Art in Australia from Colonization to Postmodernism wrote: "Aida Tomescu’s paintings…draws us into the intense concentration of its own making…(she) starts with energy and movement and seems to be trying to do the near-impossible — to reach stillness from such a starting-point.