Tautinės ir religinės pasaulėjautos atspindžiai Antano Kmieliausko tapyboje ir skulptūroje
Reflections of National and Religious Emotional Attitude in Antanas Kmieliauskas Paintings and Sculptures

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses the works of Antanas Kmieliauskas (1932–2019), one of the most universal representatives of contemporary Lithuanian religious art. At the beginning it briefly discusses the origins of artist’s creativity, the circle of his closest friends (including poet Justinas Mikutis) through which new tendencies of modernization and return to national ideals emerged in Lithuanian art. The article mainly focuses on the artist’s monumental murals and sculptures; discusses in details their compositional peculiarities, the solutions of plastic and other formalistic problems; regards Kmieliauskas as one of the most versatile Lithuanian artist of the second part of 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century, whose creativity evolved within the frameworks of neoclassical secular and religious aesthetics.

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