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 presents a vivid landscape teeming with thick, textured layers of paint in a kaleidoscope of colors. The dominating greens, punctuated with strokes of red, purple, yellow, and blue, create an abstract scene that might suggest a lush garden or a bustling market. Bright patches seem to mimic the play of light through foliage, or perhaps the colorful array of goods and flowers in a sunlit space. The vertical compositions, some resembling elongated structures or figures, draw the eye upward, while the occasional horizontal strokes suggest tranquility and balance. The overall impression is one of vitality and motion, as though capturing a moment of life in vibrant, dynamic brushwork. The painting's tactile quality evokes the richness of summer, with its growth and effulescence. It is an abstract representation that leaves much to the interpretation of the viewer, yet distinctly communicates the warmth, color, and energy typical of a summer scene.
