THE BAIA MARE ARTISTIC CENTRE (1896 – 2013). PAN-EUROPEAN IDENTITY AND HISTORICAL EVOLUTION IN STREAMING Dr. Tiberiu Alexa  City of painters. The individual and collective awareness of a wide national and foreign audience has defined a mental reflection of the city of Baia Mare through the image of ”city of painters”. The configuration of such a symbolic image and its subsequent permanence for more than a century, are the result of a complex evolution process. Consequently, the artistic movement of Baia Mare was founded on the permanent structures of specialized institutions whose functioning continuity moves along the stream of its own history and