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 vibrant, color-rich street scene at dusk. The sky, painted in warm shades of orange and yellow, transitions above a quaint urban landscape. The perspective is down a road that recedes to the horizon, bordered by stylized, somewhat abstract buildings in a multitude of colors like red, purple, pink, green, and blue. These buildings have diverse, uneven rooftops and varied architectural features, giving a lively, eclectic feel. Each side of the street is lined by dark, leafless trees which form arches over the scene, adding a frame-like structure. The street itself is depicted in creamy whites and greys, drawing the eye straight through the middle of the composition to the vanishing point where the sky meets the silhouette of a distant building. The use of thick, expressive brushstrokes throughout instills texture and a sense of movement within the calm urban setting.
