“Octav Angheluță’s works are recognized by their exuberant chromaticism and balanced structure, but especially by their sense of humor”, noted the critic Adina Nanu in the catalog dedicated to Octavian Angheluță.

He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bucharest in 1928.

The painter Octav Angheluță was the founder of the Association of Romanian Painters and Sculptors, together with Lucian Grigorescu, Dumitru Ghiață, Alexandru Moscu, Ion Țuculescu, Alexandru Ciucurencu, he was the director of the State Art Gallery and professor at the painting department of the Nicolae Grig Institute of Fine Arts. Bucharest.

He had a fairly active presence in the artistic chronicle of the interwar period – Paul Miracovici made his debut at the Official Salon in 1926.

Miracovici painted landscapes, still lifes, portraits, made with a keen sense of decorum as can be seen in the mural painting at the International Hotel in Mamaia as well as in the works “Children from the Land of the Dead”, “Holiday at the Mouth of Humor” . Paul Miracovici was one of the creators of the modern Romanian tourist poster from the 1930s.

He studied in Paris just like other great Romanian painters such as Arthur Verona, Jean Alexandru Steriadi, Camil Ressu and Nicolae Tonitza at the Grande Chaumière Academy between 1930 and 1933.

In 1932, Paul Miracovici won a two-year scholarship to the Romanian School in Fontenay-aux-Roses. Paul Miracovici made his debut at the Official Salon in Paris in 1926 with a “Self-Portrait” and was one of the most praised and productive interwar painters. After participating in several exhibitions in Paris, at the Tuileries Salon and at the “Salon des Independents”, Miracovici returns to Romania and becomes an art critic after which he obtains various orders from the state decorating Romanian pavilions abroad.

He worked as a muralist, a profession he embraced until his death in 1973. The activity of muralist as well as professor at the Institute of Fine Arts in Bucharest were financially profitable but were an impediment. in its evolution in terms of painting. Thus, on the occasion of an exhibition made at the Dalles Hall in 1970, the youthful influences of Albert Marquet and Pierre Bonnard combined with a tendency towards abstract, somewhat confused the art-consuming public.

The mural works made by Paul Miracovici until 1948 remained a landmark in murals. His post-war painting is valuable and shows a dose of Renaissance perception that becomes more evident over time.

He attended the Academy of Fine Arts with painters Camil Ressu and Cecilia Cuțescu-Storck.

In the Palace of Arts was started a large fresco entitled “The great fresco of war” started by Alexandru Ciucurencu, in which he collaborated with the painters Dem. Iordache and Gheorghe Vânătoru, on the sketches of Gheorghe Labin.

The 1940 earthquake severely damaged the building, which was demolished in 1943, and the fresco disappeared.

After the Second World War, through the chosen themes, Gheorghe Labin became the painter of the misery during the war.

Between April 11 and 25, 1948, the “FLAME” Exhibition took place, organized at the Dalles Hall by MH Maxy, Ligia Macovei, Gheorghe Labin, Boris Caragea and Alexandru Ciucurencu – artists of a certain left orientation – foreshadowing the new orientation of art in the regime communist.

On December 25, 1950, by Decree 226/1950, the Fine Arts Union was dissolved and its entire patrimony passed to the Union of Fine Artists of the R.P.R., which is recognized as a legal entity of public utility. Boris Caragea was elected president and Gheorghe Labin was elected general secretary (1968-1978).