Cornel Brudaşcu (b. 1937, Tusa, Romania) is a seminal figure of Romanian postwar art, whose practice bridges intimacy, cultural longing, and painterly experimentation. Long celebrated for his role in shaping younger generations of figurative painters, Brudaşcu’s work is marked by its resistance to rigid categorization: navigating between the vivid immediacy of pop and the atmospheric weight of expressionism. The four works presented here, Composition (2017) and three untitled canvases from 2024, demonstrate the enduring vitality of his approach. In Composition, Brudaşcu dissolves the figure into painterly fragments, where flashes of color and blurred contours evoke both presence and disappearance. The untitled paintings from 2024 reflect a deepened intimacy: figures emerge from shadow and atmosphere, tender yet fragile, their gestures caught between vulnerability and transcendence. At times, bodies are rendered in spectral tones, as if suspended in memory; at others, they are charged with almost sculptural force, immersed in chromatic fields of blue, violet, and crimson. Across these works, Brudaşcu insists on painting as a space of encounter, between body and history, longing and immediacy, figuration and abstraction. What persists is his ability to convey the texture of human presence: the intimacy of skin, the weight of gesture, the porous boundary between the seen and the felt. These canvases exemplify why Brudaşcu’s practice remains both historically significant and urgently contemporary: deeply rooted in Romania’s cultural context, yet resonant with universal questions of representation, memory, and desire.