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This paper focuses on haiga painting—a Japanese art which unifies painting, poetry and calligraphy on the same surface—and the influence that it had on some of the Western artists in their creations at the end of the 20th century and at the beginning of the 21st century. Haiga painting was created together with the haiku poetry in Japan during the 17th century. The paper is divided into two parts. The first part consists in presenting the appearance of the haiga painting in Japan, its aesthetics, and its evolu...

During the second semester of 2013-2014, as an associate professor at the Arts Faculty from the Ovidius University in Constantza, I proposed a research project to the masters' degree students in Visual Arts, focussing on the relationship between earth and water in different versions: Waterfall, River, Coast of the Sea, Coast of the Lake, and the Danube Delta. From the beginning, I told the students that this research project had to be completed by an exhibition at one of the art galleries in Constantza—including...