Beech forest in summer

Beech forest in summer belongs to the core strand of Andreescu's practice devoted to immersive, light-saturated woodland interiors. The beech forest held particular significance for Romanian landscape painters as a native subject — these dense, cathedral-like groves covered significant portions of the Carpathian foothills and represented a landscape distinctly different from the poplar-lined plains of Wallachia or the painted forests of Barbizon. Andreescu studied the forest interior with the same systematic attention that French painters brought to Fontainebleau, seeking to capture the specific quality of summer light filtered through a continuous canopy of broad beech leaves. The result tends toward a warm, greenish luminosity quite unlike the silvery atmosphere of northern forests. Held at the National Museum of Art of Romania, this work represents Andreescu's contribution to a defining Romanian subject in the visual arts. The painting rewards comparison with similar summer forest interiors by contemporaries across Central and Eastern Europe who were independently developing Barbizon-inflected landscape practices rooted in local terrain.

Andreescu saturates the canvas with warm greens mixed with yellow to approximate the glow of sunlight through a dense summer canopy. Paint is applied in overlapping, leaf-like strokes in the upper zones, creating a vibrating texture. The forest floor is handled with cooler, more subdued tones to anchor the composition against the luminous canopy above.