Group portrait, painted in 1969, – Boriss Bērzins, Aleksandrs Stankevičs, Vilis Ozols, Gunārs Cīlītis and in the center – Biruta Baumane. It is a do the job that has experienced to substitute the five canvases bought from the Point out Tretyakov Gallery, as the artist’s inability to component with his is effective has develop into legendary above the several years. The preferred variation of the perform was painted in a pair of days, although the unique remained in the workshop. This function has all the threads of Baumane’s portray. Pink handkerchief – outrageous, aromatic and fragile shade of lily of the valley, brilliant, interesting and – effortlessly unstable. Biruta’s face is white as a mask, when her disappointment and ache have chased away the vivifying color from her encounter, only the line of the mouth and the rosy shade mark a steaming and stubborn vitality. Her one particular and four buddies of hers, all wander the path together in art and everyday living, and in their area all over Birut, you can really feel the defense and pleasant heat. The lantern illuminates this little nightlife scene, which is frozen in some drama identified to her, but Biruta would interrupt it with the cry that life is gorgeous, if she could, she would dance it on the fingertips of every customer, the earth not there. ‘would have held shut, it would have been a joy to swim in the good light of the stage! The drama that blows is only the unhappiness of the heart, which blossoms beneath the go over of the night and feeds the mad desires of life.
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Biruta Baumane never gave up portray, he usually painted what he required. As contemporaries keep in mind, even if her dwelling had been on hearth, if Biruta were being passionate about her painting of her, she would not cease and keep on to produce it!
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From 16 September 2022 to 8 January 2023, the exhibition “LOVE AND Daily life. Biruta Baumane “.
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The will work of the LNMM collection are exhibited in the exhibition: the bequest of the artist Biruta Baumane at the Latvian Countrywide Museum of Artwork.
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