Apple-tree

This picture is from the last period of V. Didžiokas’ life, when he acquired a country house in the environs of Rumšiškės and retreated to live in the village. The composition is fragmental and the space is small and closed. No longer lives the epic mood, decorativeness and monumentality. The apple-tree is lonely as if symbolising the life of a hermit, far from the noise of the city and artists’ intrigues.

Source: Law firm Valiunas Ellex art album THE WORLD OF LANDSCAPES I (2010). Text authors Nijolė Tumėnienė, Dalia Tarandaitė
Expositions: “Académie de Vilna. Vilnius Drawing School (1866–1915)”, 5 October – 26 November 2017, National Gallery of Art, Vilnius (curator Jolanta Širkaitė). Published: Académie de Vilna: Vilniaus piešimo mokykla 1866-1915 / Vilnius drawing school: Exhibition Catalogue, Nacionalinė dailės galerija 2017 m. 4 d. - lapkričio 26 d., compiled by Jolanta Širkaitė, Vilnius: Lietuvos kultūros tyrimų institutas, 2017, p. 137.

This picture is from the last period of V. Didžiokas’ life, when he acquired a country house in the environs of Rumšiškės and retreated to live in the village. The composition is fragmental and the space is small and closed. No longer lives the epic mood, decorativeness and monumentality. The apple-tree is lonely as if symbolising the life of a hermit, far from the noise of the city and artists’ intrigues.

Source: Law firm Valiunas Ellex art album THE WORLD OF LANDSCAPES I (2010). Text authors Nijolė Tumėnienė, Dalia Tarandaitė
Expositions: “Académie de Vilna. Vilnius Drawing School (1866–1915)”, 5 October – 26 November 2017, National Gallery of Art, Vilnius (curator Jolanta Širkaitė). Published: Académie de Vilna: Vilniaus piešimo mokykla 1866-1915 / Vilnius drawing school: Exhibition Catalogue, Nacionalinė dailės galerija 2017 m. 4 d. - lapkričio 26 d., compiled by Jolanta Širkaitė, Vilnius: Lietuvos kultūros tyrimų institutas, 2017, p. 137.