Lithuania Contemporary art
Jonas Čeponis was a Lithuanian painter and representative of the Fauvism movement.
Čeponis graduated from the Lithuanian Art Institute and the Vilnius Institute of Engineering Construction, and was a professor at the Lithuanian Art Institute. Influenced by Fauvism, the artist mainly painted expressive landscapes of Lithuanian villages and Vilnius. His paintings are characterized by decorative, contrasting color combinations. Čeponis also painted portraits, still lifes, figurative compositions and nudes.
Jazep Mikhailovich Gorid (Russian: Язеп Михайлович Горид) was a Belarusian and Polish-Lithuanian artist of the first half of the twentieth century. He is known as a graphic artist and painter, caricaturist and illustrator.
Jazep Gorid drew political and everyday caricatures, painted portraits and landscapes. He also worked in book graphics, illustrated and designed books and other printed publications. In addition, the artist created stained-glass windows and murals.
Martinas Jankus is a Lithuanian landscape painter, member of the Lithuanian Union of Artists.
He began exhibiting in 1991 and since then has held 16 solo exhibitions. Jankus paints abstract, emotional landscapes, where the main thing is not the peculiarities of relief, but the skill to capture the unique color relationships depending on the seasons.
Sofija Veiveryte (Russian: София Мотиевна Вейверите) was a Lithuanian and Soviet artist of the second half of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. She is known as a painter, graphic artist, master of frescoes, and teacher.
Sofija Veiveryte created works characterized by monumentality, expressiveness, ability to work with tones and halftones. Her portraits show the influence of the old Renaissance and Baroque masters. Her works are kept in various museums, including the Tretyakov Gallery, the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, the Sofia National Gallery (Bulgaria) and the Lithuanian Museum of Theater, Music and Cinema, as well as in private collections.
