Artwork in the room
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 reveals a vibrant and textured landscape depicting the Tatra Mountains. In the foreground, lush green fields intersect with neat patches, contrasting sharply with dark clusters of pine trees. Small red-roofed houses are scattered across the rolling hills, adding bursts of color to the predominantly verdant expanse. Above, the vast sky, filled with broad strokes of purple, pink, grey, and blue, suggests a dynamic, perhaps tumultuous weather. The horizon softly blends into the sky, allowing the mountains in the distance to gently emerge, their contours highlighted against the lighter sky with a play of light shadowing their ridges and valleys. The use of bold, impressionistic strokes instills a sense of movement and raw natural beauty, capturing the essence of this majestic mountain landscape.
