LEONIDS ARINS (1907-1991) (Leonids Arins (1907-1991)

• Authors: Cebere Gundega
• Languages of publication: LV

Abstracts

EN

Leonids Arins was one of the leading followers of Fauvism in Latvian art. Already during his studies at the Decorative Painting Master Studio of the Latvian Academy of Art (1925-1942) he was interested in Latvian early modernists' and the latest European achievements in art, purchasing the best publications available at the time - expensive books on art published in the West. Arins spent most of his life in the provincial town of Tukums, working at the local museum (1938-1953) and teaching drawing at the local secondary school (1953-1968). He took up painting enthusiastically after retirement. Arins' painting is typified by attempts to achieve colour harmony on a flat surface, characteristic of the Fauves and especially of Henri Matisse; at the same time he searched for an individual style as well. From a thematic viewpoint, this shows in the choice of local environment and landscape but from the aspect of form and style - in the blending of bright colour fields and variations on the Northern light. Expression, asymmetry and the broken rhythm give Arins' compositions a particular experimental tension.

Keywords

EN

FAUVISM; LATVIAN PAINTING; LEONIDS ARINS; MODERNISM

Discipline

• ARTS_&_ARCHITECTURE: ARTS & ARCHITECTURE

• Publisher: Institute of Art History of the Latvian Academy of Art and Art History Research Support Foundation
• Journal: Makslas Vesture un Teorija
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 8
• Pages: 25-33
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Cebere Gundega

• Gundega Cebere, Arsenals Exhibition Hall of the Latvian National Museum of Art, Torna iela 1, Riga LV-1050, Latvia

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11LVAAAA09093