Evening. From the cycle ‘India’ III
| Author: | Jonas Daniliauskas (b. 1950) |
Jonas Daniliauskas was born on 10 June 1950 in the village of Lekėčiai, in the Šakiai district. He completed his painting studies in 1974 at the State Art Institute of Lithuania, where he studied under Algirdas Petrulis and Jonas Švažas. Between 1975 and 1985, he taught art at the National M.K. Čiurlionis School of Arts in Vilnius, and from 1985 to 1989 he taught painting at the State Art Institute. He has been an associate professor in the Faculty of Design and Technology at the High School of Light Industry (later the Vilnius College of the Clothing and Study Centre) since 1997. He began to participate in exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad in 1974. He has had nearly 20 personal shows, in Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipėda, Switzerland, Germany, Poland and Great Britain, and has participated in group exhibitions in many countries in Europe, North America and Asia.
Daniliauskas’ works are richly coloured, lyrical, metaphorical, and full of childhood memories, with images of rural reality intertwined with myths and national customs. The impression of endless space and the special attention to landscape show his love of nature and a poetic perception of it, even in his narrative compositions.
His works have been acquired by the Lithuanian Art Museum, the M.K. Čiurlionis National Art Museum, the Georgian State Art Museum in Tbilisi, the Latvian State Art Museum in Riga, the National Museum in Poznan, the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, and the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. He has received several awards: in 1979 he won a prize from the Ministry of Culture of Lithuania, in 1985 the first prize of the Ministry of Culture of Lithuania in the 6th Biennale of the Baltic Countries, in 1985 the first prize in the 11th Biennale of the Baltic Countries and Iceland in Rostock (Germany), and in 1999 a prize from the Lithuanian Artists’ Association.
Daniliauskas draws his inspiration from nature, the everyday life of people in the country, and his childhood memories. The sky in his landscapes, painted in bright colours, and the ground, with trees and flowers, are inseparable from people’s lives, their homes and their domestic animals. Everything is lifted on to a poetic level of fantasy: people and animals, as if they have been deprived of their body weight, flutter in the air instead of walking upright on the ground, thus recalling the unrealistic figures of Chagall. However, Daniliauskas’ work is very Lithuanian: the people, artificially poised in space, express the fragility of life, and create a mood of sorrow and hope, and by their actions that look like rituals they recall folk sculptures. The painter is mesmerised by the great awakening of nature, the blossoming of the trees, the singing of birds in spring, and by winter, especially the first fall of snow.
Source: Valiunas Ellex (LAWIN until 2015) art album: THE WORLD OF LANDSCAPES II (2013). Compiler and author Nijolė Tumėnienė.
Jonas Daniliauskas was born on 10 June 1950 in the village of Lekėčiai, in the Šakiai district. He completed his painting studies in 1974 at the State Art Institute of Lithuania, where he studied under Algirdas Petrulis and Jonas Švažas. Between 1975 and 1985, he taught art at the National M.K. Čiurlionis School of Arts in Vilnius, and from 1985 to 1989 he taught painting at the State Art Institute. He has been an associate professor in the Faculty of Design and Technology at the High School of Light Industry (later the Vilnius College of the Clothing and Study Centre) since 1997. He began to participate in exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad in 1974. He has had nearly 20 personal shows, in Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipėda, Switzerland, Germany, Poland and Great Britain, and has participated in group exhibitions in many countries in Europe, North America and Asia.
Daniliauskas’ works are richly coloured, lyrical, metaphorical, and full of childhood memories, with images of rural reality intertwined with myths and national customs. The impression of endless space and the special attention to landscape show his love of nature and a poetic perception of it, even in his narrative compositions.
His works have been acquired by the Lithuanian Art Museum, the M.K. Čiurlionis National Art Museum, the Georgian State Art Museum in Tbilisi, the Latvian State Art Museum in Riga, the National Museum in Poznan, the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, and the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. He has received several awards: in 1979 he won a prize from the Ministry of Culture of Lithuania, in 1985 the first prize of the Ministry of Culture of Lithuania in the 6th Biennale of the Baltic Countries, in 1985 the first prize in the 11th Biennale of the Baltic Countries and Iceland in Rostock (Germany), and in 1999 a prize from the Lithuanian Artists’ Association.
Daniliauskas draws his inspiration from nature, the everyday life of people in the country, and his childhood memories. The sky in his landscapes, painted in bright colours, and the ground, with trees and flowers, are inseparable from people’s lives, their homes and their domestic animals. Everything is lifted on to a poetic level of fantasy: people and animals, as if they have been deprived of their body weight, flutter in the air instead of walking upright on the ground, thus recalling the unrealistic figures of Chagall. However, Daniliauskas’ work is very Lithuanian: the people, artificially poised in space, express the fragility of life, and create a mood of sorrow and hope, and by their actions that look like rituals they recall folk sculptures. The painter is mesmerised by the great awakening of nature, the blossoming of the trees, the singing of birds in spring, and by winter, especially the first fall of snow.
Source: Valiunas Ellex (LAWIN until 2015) art album: THE WORLD OF LANDSCAPES II (2013). Compiler and author Nijolė Tumėnienė.
