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 displays a vibrant, abstract landscape split into layers of textured strokes and chaotic patches of color. The upper section of the canvas is dominated by a blend of warm hues—reds and pinks stretch across like a fiery sky at dusk, interspersed with strokes of white and dark blues suggesting a tumultuous atmosphere. Below this, a sequence of horizontal bands, rich in contrasting colors like white, gray, black, and streaks of bright orange, implies a distant horizon line or a reflective body of water. The lower half of the artwork becomes increasingly complex and fragmented. It is filled with a tumultuous assembly of shapes and colors—grays, blacks, browns, and touches of vibrant reds and oranges, all heavily textured or daubed on, suggesting a chaotic, perhaps urban, scene. The myriad of colors and the heavy, dynamic application of paint create an energetic, almost palpable sense of movement, giving the painting a lively, organic feel, despite its abstract form. The overall effect is intense and engaging, inviting viewers to form their own interpretations of the depicted scene.
