Arvydas Kašauskas was born in 1959 in Vilnius. From 1977 to 1982, he studied fresco and mosaic at the Vilnius Academy of Arts.
“The quality of art remains a matter of the author’s ambition and integrity,” says Kašauskas. In simple terms, art is good when the artist cares and stays honest.
Kašauskas was trained in monumental art—a discipline focused on scale, structure, and permanence. This background still shapes his work today. He approaches painting not as simple depiction, but as construction: each piece is built, carrying a sense of weight and space.
After the fall of the Soviet regime, he began working independently, moving from public, state-commissioned frescoes to more intimate canvas works. While the scale changed, his material approach remained.
Paint is not just applied—it is scraped, pressed, and layered, creating dense, tactile surfaces. His work balances control with unpredictability.
Looking back, Kašauskas describes his early artistic drive as a search for “a brighter, more compelling life,” shaped by a time when art held a distinct cultural role.
Today, he sees creativity as something open to everyone—not limited to artists, but available to anyone shaping their life with intention.
Landscape remains a constant in his work. Often painting outdoors, he draws from the energy of place and shared creative experience. Even in abstraction, nature is still present—reduced to rhythm, form, and space.
For Kašauskas, every painting is, ultimately, an abstraction.
About this artwork+
The painting depicts a vast landscape dominated by a stretch of road that vanishes into the horizon, flanked on both sides by lush fields. On the left, the fields glow with a warm, earthy red, contrasting starkly against the cooler, greenish hues on the right. Sparse, dark trees punctuate the fields near the road, drawing the eye towards the horizon. The sky is a dramatic and turbulent overlay of clouds, painted with thick strokes of white, gray, and hints of blue, suggesting a brewing storm or the clearing of one. The use of impasto technique enriches the texture, giving a tangible sense of movement and depth to the clouds and the landscape below. The expansive sky takes up more than half of the painting, emphasizing a sense of openness and scale. This dynamic sky scene casts a mesmerizing light across the scene, illuminating patches of the road and fields with a soft glow, hinting at either the end of the day or its beginning.
