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* Lithuanian School of Art established in 1921. As well as teaching it awards grants to more talented students to train in western European art centres
 
* Lithuanian School of Art established in 1921. As well as teaching it awards grants to more talented students to train in western European art centres
 
* May 1923, The New Art Exhibition opens in Vilnius, organised by Władysław Strzemiński and [[Vytautas Kairiūkštis]] (1890-1961). It is one of the first manifestations of constructivist art outside Russia. Its catalogue includes Kairiūkštis’ constructivist manifesto. The participants of the exhibition later become the members of the [[Blok]] group (Grupa Kubistów, Konstruktywistów i Suprematystów Blok) which holds exhibitions in Riga, Bucharest, Brussels and Warsaw.
 
* May 1923, The New Art Exhibition opens in Vilnius, organised by Władysław Strzemiński and [[Vytautas Kairiūkštis]] (1890-1961). It is one of the first manifestations of constructivist art outside Russia. Its catalogue includes Kairiūkštis’ constructivist manifesto. The participants of the exhibition later become the members of the [[Blok]] group (Grupa Kubistów, Konstruktywistów i Suprematystów Blok) which holds exhibitions in Riga, Bucharest, Brussels and Warsaw.
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* http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/comm_0588-8018_2006_num_79_1_2418
  
 
==Video art==
 
==Video art==

Revision as of 11:45, 23 August 2011

Cities

Vilnius

Precedessors

  • Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, painter and composer. In 1904-1909 explored the analogies between music and the visual arts. He draws on Lithuanian folklore, Oriental mysticism, and uses more abstract forms than many of his Russian contemporaries. [1]
  • Dailės draugija (the Art Society), *1907 in Vilnius. It organises 8 exhibitions before WW1. Its members include Lithuanians, Poles, Jews, and Russians who act as a conduit of information about Futurism, Cubism and Expressionism to local artists in Vilnius.
  • Vilnius University reopens in 1918 as the Stefan Batory University. Its department of fine arts is directed by Ferdynand Ruszczyc and includes leading figures from Poland’s avant-garde (Zbigniew Pronaszko, Benedykt Kubicki).
  • Lithuanian School of Art established in 1921. As well as teaching it awards grants to more talented students to train in western European art centres
  • May 1923, The New Art Exhibition opens in Vilnius, organised by Władysław Strzemiński and Vytautas Kairiūkštis (1890-1961). It is one of the first manifestations of constructivist art outside Russia. Its catalogue includes Kairiūkštis’ constructivist manifesto. The participants of the exhibition later become the members of the Blok group (Grupa Kubistów, Konstruktywistów i Suprematystów Blok) which holds exhibitions in Riga, Bucharest, Brussels and Warsaw.
  • http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/comm_0588-8018_2006_num_79_1_2418

Video art

Equipment
  • VCRs were availabe on the black market by the late 1970s. In 1986 a VCR cost the equivalent of 17 months average wage (Mark R. Levy, The VCR Age)
Artists
Exhibitions
  • Twilight. Curated by Deimantas Narkevicius, Kestutis Kuizinas, and Evaldas Stankevicius, Contemporary Art Center Vilnius, 1998.
  • Lithuanian Art 1989-1999. The Ten Years. Curated by Kestutis Kuizinas, Raimundas Malasauskas, Deimantas Narkevicius, Evaldas Stankevicius, Jonas Valatkevicius, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, 1999.
  • The Others are Me. Social Instinct in Lithuanian Art. Curated by Maria Anna Potocka, Gallery of Contemporary Art BUNKIER SZTUKI, Krakow, 2004.
Literature
  • Renata Dubinskaitė, "Artist Roles in Lithuanian Video Art (1990-2003)", Athena: Philosophical Studies. Issue: 3, 2008: 156-172. [2]
  • Natalie Musteata, "Wired to History: Romanian and Lithuanian Video Art Post-1989", PhD Program in Art History, CUNY Graduate Center, 2010. [3]

Electroacoustic and experimental music, sound art

New media art, Media culture

Literature


Countries
avant-garde, modernism, experimental art, media culture, social practice

Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Central and Eastern Europe, Chile, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kosova, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, Moldova, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Pakistan, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Slovenia, Slovakia, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States