A t "Dalles" Hall we can recognise Silvia Onisa's paintings, characterised by the expression of a direct emotion by the rigour of the spirit of observation, by the mild waving of the curves, by the balance of the image, by the rich and vivid chromatiism. Her paintings contain a musicality that comes from the organisation of the waving rhythm: light shadow.

 The artist feels the flowers as if they were human beings rendered under the form of pictorial images. The landscapes as well as the flowers come to confirm the palette of colours, the appeal of the artist to nature.

Critic of art Mircea Deac, "Dalles" Hall - Bucharest



 A n exhibition representing compositions, flowers and landscapes 'proofs' of sensibility, of spontaneity and of a remarkable artistic intuition.

 Good knowledge of the means according to which the architecture of the image in a frame is build, gives measure to the 'deftness' and to the intelligence, thanks to which the artist manage to develop up to the last consequence the informative data.

 The flowers of Silvia Onisa mostly have a decorative function, they are astonishing in a way, not so much by their symbolic significance, by the artistic 'eye' in order to be offered again to the attention of the locker-on, through the painted image, giving the 'suspense' in the decorative dimension of the image which obliges to look for the origin of the personal vision of the Romanian art.

Critic of art Christina Angelescu



 H aving graduated from two facultaties of art where she thoroughly learned different styles and technical means, Silvia Onisa conceives a painting under the mark of the fantastic, reaching sometimes the level of the benign surrealism a mean the absence of sadist or terrifying allusions, fact suggesting a bookish contaminant especially with poesy.

 A thoroughly used liberty in the direction of maintaining the relations of balance in all the iconic plans, the obvious reserve for several registers of complicity of the message from symbol to allegory in metaphor have a contribution at the variety of pictorial situations.

 A serious chromatic sonority, the simple penmanship of the real or of the imagined shapes, the form of the incertitude or that of the dream hidden for a moment to the revelation, the blending game which hybridises beings and things, a pretended continuity by virtue of which she whole of the exhibition could be turned into an oniric script, send us towards the universe of the romantic poetry and of the need of the refuge in ideal spaces.

Vasile Dragut, "Simeza" Hall, Bucharest 1981



 A pproaching with a visible pleasure the landscape and the still life not only of the intrinsic pictorial valences, which bring to the exhibition of the sonorous chromatism, but also for the capacity of rendering an active state of spirit, the artist shows in her present exhibition mostly landscapes with characters, drawing our attention towards the reserve of a sever construction.

 The paintings present a complete artist, turning to the best account the best account the aesthetics of the form-colour, by a through treatment of the touch which remind the colours of the native places, on a line which prolongs that of the adopted expressionism.

 Dense without using the repetion, diverse in the respect of the themes and of the situations approached - the landscapes turn of the best account the nature and the space built by man, the direct observation and the nostalgic projection - Silvia Onisa's paintings reveal the passion and the earnestness of a talent which appears more and more acutely mature from one exhibition to another. The present exhibition seems sufficient to define a personality, but the artist obviously aspires at a superior point.

Critic of art Mihai Ispir (Eforie Hall)



 S ilvia Onisa's exhibition is a sincere joy for me and an event which a thoroughly prize. Common things: fruits, lowers or a diary blowing in the wind on the table at which the coffee was waiting to the sipped at leisure a moment ago, pass through the reality of the park, of the room, by the metamorphoses of art in the painting.

 Nature has its rigid lows, but maybe it is exactly on this purpose that the painter's emphasises her belief or her revolt, consciously encroaching upon the lows of the "eclairage", out of the meet of the light of painting and of truth. Her flowers, before being what they suggest to be, are a meditation upon life, upon the floral cycles conveyed in a subtle and refined way not only by colour, form and line, by that astonishing acuity of the observation of the light and of the object contemplated in the light, but especially of the disintegration.

Critic of art Radu Negru ("Cronica Iasi" Hall - 1983)



 S ensitive at the beauties of the world, Silvia Onisa makes fine works, turning to the best account her feelings, under the action of which the images lose their material dimension, and become vaporous and floating , everything is moving, everything turns to life.

 Obviously in this exhibition, the landscape which or whitout characters is the favourite genre of the painter's, and in this respect, the images of the legendary Maramures, with the traditional wooden architecture, having the mark of a time on which the light slides calmly like a slight breeze, offering ineffable beauties - appears most frequently.

Critic of art Lelia Pop, Bucharest



 G enerous overflowing of fresh and warm colours, the painting of the artist Silvia Onisa remains the icon of a heavenly world, recreated I simple and restful shades of the inclination towards between wish and expression is, of course, a matter of will - power and of daring.

 In this very sensitive artist's paintings the colour's rain in an amazing cadence, gather themselves togheter, dance in dreaming harmonies spread between light and joy.

Critic of art Marin Mihalache

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