Born 1937 in Tusa, Romania. Lives and works in Cluj-Napoca.

Cornel Brudascu studied at the Institute of Arts Ion Andreescu in Cluj, graduating in 1962. He is one of the few Romanian artists associated with pop art, and one of the mentors of the group of younger figurative painters known internationally as the Cluj School. In the 1970s he got acquainted with contemporary American art and consequently embarked on a series of portraits, of both his fellow artists from Cluj and of Western pop icons, based on images seen in Western newspapers and magazines.

Nicolae Ceau?escu’s Romania in the 1970s was the only period of his regime that was open to international exchanges, therefore even though travel abroad was banned, especi...