The artistic path of Dumitru Trifan in the field of satirical graphics

Abstract

The objectives of this study are to mirror the fruitful activity of the plastic artist Dumitru Trifan in the field of satirical graphics by highlighting the particularities of the graphic sheets signed by him. As a result of extensive analysis, it is noted that the plastic artist Dumitru Trifan has excelled in the field of caricature for several decades. Thus, the protagonist, together with other established cartoonists, intensively publishes ironic and humorous cartoons on the pages of the most famous periodicals, such as the magazines Scînteia Leninistă and Femeia Moldovei and the satire and humor magazine Chiparuş. At the same time, at the beginning of the 1980s of the last century, as an illustrator for the weekly Literatura si Arta, Dumitru Trifan elaborates and publishes an impressive number of caricatures on the pages of this newspaper. I am constantly amazed by how these scenarios are twisted from reality and how boldly the crises' core is handled. Dumitru Trifan practiced a vast thematic spectrum through which he brought to the fore the relations between spouses and those between the working man and the bureaucrat; he also presented humorously but also sarcastically the images of the chilling and the trickster, of irresponsible people, and others. Thus, the artist is sometimes sarcastic in the distortion of the image and sometimes cordial and kind to the character or landscape. And the tonal stain, like an arbitrary game, is intense and expressive.