Valentina Rusu-Ciobanu (b. October 28, 1920 , Chisinau ) is a Bessarabian plastic artist, whose creation is distinguished both by expressive means, considered by unconventional, innovative critics, and by a deep poetic note. According to the commentator S. Boberanga , Valentina Rusu-Ciobanu's painting is a symbiosis of "poetic realism" and "original spirit", and according to the critic Vladimir Bulat , the style chosen by the painter could be "read" during the totalitarian Soviet regime. , as a "sublimated subversion", a risk that Valentina Rusu-Ciobanu also assumed.