Author: Antanas Andrijauskas

Publisher: Lithuanian culture research institute

Year: 2022

ISBN: ISBN 978-609-8231-39-7

A genuine recognition of Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis’ (1875-1911) art, the Lithuanian painter and composer, is impossible without researching the mythological symbolism, art aesthetics, and artistic traditions of the great Eastern civilisations. Therefore, this concise study based on the principles of comparative methodology discusses the connections between the paintings of all three main stages of the artist’s pictorial evolution and the different art traditions of Eastern countries. The main focus will be on the comparative analysis of Čiurlionis’ sonata painting phase and East Asian traditional painting, prioritising the famous landscape painting. During the research, similarities and differences in solving the problems of his worldview, thinking, perspective, compositional, artistic space, artistic time, plastic, colour and colour palette will be highlighted. Based on the iconographic and stylistic analysis of Čiurlionis’ aesthetic views and his paintings, the argument still continues that significant impact on the formation of a mature musical painting style of the sonata period and in solving the problems of the interaction of painting and musical language was acquired by his acquaintance with the traditions of East Asian painting, which helped the artist to create a unique style of “musical painting”.

Metamorphoses of Čiurlionis' Orientalism

Metamorphoses of Čiurlionis' Orientalism