The work of Valentina Rusu-Ciobanu (b.1920) marked an entire era in the history of fine art in Moldova, skillfully mastering colors and shapes and anticipating contemporary artistic movements. Valentina Rusu-Ciobanu belongs to the generation of plastic artists from Bessarabia trained in the cultural atmosphere of Romania between the wars and then in the contradictory context of socio-political realities dictated by the totalitarian communist regime.. Read more..