Nicolae Grigorescu was one of the founders of modern Romanian painting. He became a symbol for the young generations of artists who, in the first decades of the twentieth century, sought to identify and bring to light the values of Romanian spirituality.

"Nicolae Grigorescu is Romanian with all his soul and by all his work. His friendship with French artists could not tear him away from Romanian meditation, from the memory of the Doina, from the image of the vast Danube plain, gleaming with silvery dust, from that sweet hill country with vineyards and shingled little houses.
He remains a poet, and his art is a bird's trill. A Romanian by feeling, by his delicate lyricism, by the sympathy he puts into his painting, by his choice of broad melancholy or dreamily intimate motifs, by whatever is gentle and spiritual in his oeuvre." Henri Focillon, French art historian.

Video, narration, and piano arrangements of Romanian folk songs: Byron Thomas.

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