MKC

Tuesday, January 01, 2013

I thought I'll introduce you to an amazing artist who you're probably not aware of - Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis.  He's my favourite Lithuanian artist. I love the range of colours he used and the world he created in his paintings.


Extract from Wikipedia:
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (PolishMikołaj Konstanty Czurlanis), also known as M. K. Čiurlionis (22 September [O.S. 10 September] 1875 –10 April [O.S. 28 March] 1911) was a Lithuanian painter and composer. Čiurlionis contributed to symbolism and art nouveau and was representative of the fin de siècle epoch. During his short life he composed about 250 pieces of music and created about 300 paintings. <...> Čiurlionis was a musical prodigy: he could play by ear at age three and could sight-read music freely by age seven.<...> Čiurlionis felt that he was a synesthete; that is, he perceived colors and music simultaneously. Many of his paintings bear the names of musical pieces:sonatasfugues, and preludes.

   

Some of my favourite paintings:

 LITHUANIAN GRAVEYARD 
FAIRY TALE


FAIRY TALE OF KINGS

ANGELS (PARADISE) 


SUMMER



THE SUN IS PASSING THE SIGN OF SAGITTARIUS 

FRIENDSHIP




CREATION OF THE WORLD (IX) 


ANDANTE


THE SUN IS PASSING THE SIGN OF VIRGO 


DAYBREAK

More paintings can be found here. As I said before, he was also a composer, search for him on youtube, there are plenty of his works on there.

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