With over 50 years of tradition, “Romulus Ladea” Visual Highschool has been the only pre-university educational centre (school) in all Transylvania.
Regardless of the historical times passing by, sincer 1949 this highschool has been keeping alive the faith in the eternal value of beauty, as a possible salvation of the world and of the creative ego. We are proud if our teachers who have exhibited in our country and abroad, too: as Nicolae Maier, we are also proud of our students who have became doctors, writers, architects or philosophers.
The city of Cluj-Napoca owes Romul Ladea, the spiritual master of our highschool, first class artist,remarkable monuments such as : “Lucian Blaga”,”Scoala Ardeleana”.
Ladea studied in Bucharest (he was Paciurea’s student), in Paris, in Brancusi’s workshop. He was a teacher at Fine Arts School in Cluj and at “Ion Andreescu” Institute.
In his honour and memory, every year in May, our highschool organizes a festival Romul Ladea Festival which has his name and it is accompanied by a scientific communication session with an interdisciplinary character. This festival, together with the creative experiment opened to all the children from Cluj and its surroundings, and too all our country, finalises the methodical preocupations of the teachers, regarding the improvement of the artistic language.
Our sections are:
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL(5th-8th grade)
Pupils study the general knowledge subjects that are specific to the compulsory
education, to which the arts subjects are added
-drawing 2 classes/week
-painting 2 classes/week
-moulding 2 classes/week
-history of art 1 hour/week
HIGHSCHOOL(9th-12th grade)
-Architecture, Design and Ambiental arts section
9th-12th grades are devided in two workshop: one has architecture as a profile
and the other, ambiental arts:
-Fine and Decorative Arts section
9th-12th grades are divided in special workshops (5 classes/week)
- Lasel painting
- Monumental painting (icons)
- Sculpture
- Graphics
- Ceramics (pottery)
- fashion design, textiles
The following classes are added
- Drawing 2 classes/week
- Painting 2 classes/week
- Mounding 2 classes/week
- History of art-grades 9th-12th 1 class/week
- History of art-grades 11th-12th 2 classes/week
Optional classes – General Knowledge
- Arts and geometry
- Civic Education
- Artistic anatomy
- Photography
- Image processing
- History of art 9th-12th grade extension
In our highschool there are:
- 18 rooms for theoretical subjects
- 20 workshops for fine arts
- a library with 20.000 books
- an exhibition hall
- a gym and a sports field
- 2 IT rooms (information technology room)
- a medical office
- a psychological office
