EXHIBITION OF PRANAS LAPĖ (1921–2010) IN KAUNAS 2011 02 04
The exhibition of Pranas Lapė (1921-2010) will be opened in Kaunas, at M.Žilinskas Art Gallery on the 4th of February at 5 p.m.
The creative heritage of P.Lapė is very diverse: in addition to frescos, graphical art, set designs, ceramics, the artist dedicated much of his spiritual energy to painting. As P.Lapė spent half of his life in the USA, he was influenced by abstract expressionism. The works of G.Pollock, later – of W. de Kooning, A. Gorky, their colours and impressive sizes of paintings made an impact on the artist.
The abstract paintings of P.Lapė have a special place in Lithuanian fine arts. “The great artistic power, expressive persuasion is attained using minimalistic colours – combinations of achromatic black and brown, grey and white. The composition of paintings is usually formed of verticals and horizontals, which grant stability, strength, something constant and eternal to elements of paintings,” the curator of the exhibition Nijolė Tumėnienė states.
The painter and graphic artist P. Lapė was born in Klaipėda in 1921. Still, he had to spend the biggest part of his life in foreign countries. The artist returned to Lithuania in 1998. Here P. Lapė was awarded with the Officer’s Cross of the Grand Duke of Lithuania Gediminas. The artist could not paint for the last three years of his life as he turned blind. P.Lapė died in Vilnius in 2010.
The exhibition will be open until the 6th of March.
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