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A garden scarecrow

Author: Algimantas Kuras (b. 1940)

Algimantas Kuras, a painter and teacher, was born on 8 January 1940 in Šakiai. He studied painting at the State Art Institute of Lithuania from 1960 to 1966, and began to participate in exhibitions after he graduated. In 1967 he began to work at the Lithuanian Art Museum, and later at the Art Exhibition Palace. He taught painting at Vilnius Academy of Art between 1994 and 2004, and headed the Painting Department from 2002 to 2004. He has been a member of the Lithuanian Artists’ Association since 1974, and also belongs to Group 24. Together with his colleagues Kostas Dereškevičius, Arvydas Šaltenis and Algimantas Švėgžda, he protested against the Lithuanian school of colouristic painting, which perpetuated the traditions of the adherents of the Ars group, although he did not conceal his respect for the work of Viktoras Vizgirda and Antanas Samuolis.
Algimantas Kuras has striven to achieve minimalism in art, taking simple everyday motifs and using a minimum of colour. He managed to find discarded objects, usually rusty old pieces of equipment, which he presented close-up against nature, to make them look like symbols of the past that are alien to their environment. Initially, he rallied sarcastically and then played with impulsive gesture painting, a dramatically Expressionistic form of speaking, and dark colours verging on black. He has held personal exhibitions in Vilnius, and participated in group exhibitions in Vilnius, Kaunas, Moscow, Göteborg, Tbilisi and Riga. Kuras won the National Prize for Culture and Art in 2003.

Source: Valiunas Ellex (LAWIN until 2015) art album: THE WORLD OF LANDSCAPES II (2013). Compiler and author Nijolė Tumėnienė.

Algimantas Kuras, a painter and teacher, was born on 8 January 1940 in Šakiai. He studied painting at the State Art Institute of Lithuania from 1960 to 1966, and began to participate in exhibitions after he graduated. In 1967 he began to work at the Lithuanian Art Museum, and later at the Art Exhibition Palace. He taught painting at Vilnius Academy of Art between 1994 and 2004, and headed the Painting Department from 2002 to 2004. He has been a member of the Lithuanian Artists’ Association since 1974, and also belongs to Group 24. Together with his colleagues Kostas Dereškevičius, Arvydas Šaltenis and Algimantas Švėgžda, he protested against the Lithuanian school of colouristic painting, which perpetuated the traditions of the adherents of the Ars group, although he did not conceal his respect for the work of Viktoras Vizgirda and Antanas Samuolis.
Algimantas Kuras has striven to achieve minimalism in art, taking simple everyday motifs and using a minimum of colour. He managed to find discarded objects, usually rusty old pieces of equipment, which he presented close-up against nature, to make them look like symbols of the past that are alien to their environment. Initially, he rallied sarcastically and then played with impulsive gesture painting, a dramatically Expressionistic form of speaking, and dark colours verging on black. He has held personal exhibitions in Vilnius, and participated in group exhibitions in Vilnius, Kaunas, Moscow, Göteborg, Tbilisi and Riga. Kuras won the National Prize for Culture and Art in 2003.

Source: Valiunas Ellex (LAWIN until 2015) art album: THE WORLD OF LANDSCAPES II (2013). Compiler and author Nijolė Tumėnienė.