Twilight of Thoughts: Poetry and Graphics

Poet, painter, graphical artist, illustrator for anima film, editor, Stefan Munteanu was born on November 4, 1926 in Caracal, Romania. He passed away in Los Angeles on December 9, 1990. After finishing his academic studies in art and film, he worked at the Bucharest Studious, then at Animafilm enterprise as a director for anima films (1954-1972). During this period he participated with his own anima films at international competitions in Europe, where he received prizes in Italy, Venice 1962 and Bergamo 1966, in Poland, at Krakow in 1971. In 1972 he left Romania settling in Los Angeles California. Between 1976-1981 he edited the monthly Reviews of poetry MICRON in which he presented some of his own poems and graphics as well as of other Romanian poets living in diaspora, such as Stefan Baciu, Vintila Horia, Alexandru Lungu, Ioan Mirea, Teodor Scarlat, Horia Stamatu, etc. He also exhibited his paintings and graphic art on several occasions. His volumes of poetry “Violet Snows”, “ Mail Box “, ”Evening Vacation”, Stories in a Millimeter”, ”Sky in a Pocket”, “The Syntax of Air”, “The Poets Drink from Heavenly Waters” and “The Architecture of Memory” are few of his collections of poetry known to the Romanian readers. Stefan Munteanu presents within his poetry the lyricism of inner withdrawal, the vision of an exterior world reflected by his own sensibility, protected from the prying eyes of the consumer, hidden down in the inner chamber of a unique, almost ascetic, independent thinker.