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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 titled "Autumn" by Arvydas Kašauskas is a vivid portrayal of a dense, entangled forest depicted through thick, textured brush strokes and a rich palette of warm colors. The canvas is dominated by vertical forms that suggest tree trunks, rising up from the bottom and interspersed with patches of bright oranges, yellows, and greens, which might represent the changing leaves of autumn. The ground layer appears through glimpses of darker colors, enriched with earthy browns and hints of green, indicating the forest floor strewn with fallen leaves. The canvas is alive with an impression of dense foliage and the air of a thick wooded landscape where light filters through branches, casting shadows and highlights that create a dynamic play of light and color. Overall, the composition conveys the chaotic beauty of a forest in autumn, emphasizing texture, color contrast, and a palpable sense of nature’s transformative autumnal phase.
