Fine Arts & Folklore

Painting (monumental and easel painting), graphics (easel, books, posters, and other advertising), and sculpture (en ronde-bosse plastic, bas-relief, high relief, perspective relief, etc.) are the three categories included in the Republic of Moldova's definition of "fine arts." Moldova has seen the emergence of "video-art," "kinetic sculpture," "computer graphics," "body-art," "performance," and other forms of art in recent years.

A wide range of genres, forms, and species are used to depict folk art. The majority of them fall under the category of "decorative arts": popular toys, popular carpets, traditional clothing, stone and timber, leather, rod, and metalwork. Exhibition spaces include the "Constantin Brancusi" Exhibition Center, the National Museum of Arts of Moldova, and individual exhibition spaces.

The Moldovan folklore is heavily influenced by its Dacian-Latin roots and includes a system of popular confessions and practices that are distinctively defined through music and dance, oral poetry and prose, mythology, rites, popular theater, etc. This cultural heritage, in all of its forms, encompasses a significant body of national art of exceptional worth that not only predated its cultural forms but also continued to flourish in the modern era, giving the professional culture its ethnic character.