Erdvės Ir Kaligrafizmo Triumfas Prano Gailiaus Lyrinėje Abstrakcijoje
The Triumph of Space and Calligraphy in Lyrical Abstraction of Pranas Gailius

Summary/Abstract: The article considers the abstract paintings of Pranas Gailius (b. 1928), Lithuanian abstract art master who works in France. It focuses attention on the development of abstract expressionism; examines the influence of Léger, Cézanne, Picasso, Braque, Matiss, Kandinsky, and Rouault on the painting style of Gailius; underlines the dramatic and tragic motives of his intellectual biography in his art. It pays special attention to Gailius’s aesthetics, his understanding of creative process, stylistic metamorphoses, dzen aesthetics and the Eastern Asia art schools of spontaneous painting and calligraphy. It analyzes the development of painter’s style, its main characteristics and the favorite means of artistic expression; focuses on specific components of the painter’s creative potential: imagination, intuition, emotional analysis and synthesis, poetic and metaphorical thinking. Pranas Gailius is regarded as next to Galdikas, Petrulis, Cukermanas, and Kaščiūnaitė master of the Lithuanian abstract painting.

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