Museum named after M. K.Ciurlionis (Nacionalinis MK Ciurlionio dailes muziejus) description and photos - Lithuania: Kaunas (Topic)

MK Ciurlionis Museum (Nacionalinis MK Ciurlionio dailes muziejus) description and photos - Lithuania: Kaunas. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. The name in English is Nacionalinis MK Ciurlionio dailes muziejus.

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Kaunas Museum was founded in 1921. In 1936 the modest gallery was turned into a large museum of culture named after Vitovt. Since 1944 the museum has been named after Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis (1875-1911).

MK Ciurlionis is the pride of Lithuanian art, making it an integral part of world art. He did not separate his musical work from his painting. The heyday of creativity fell on the era of Scriabin and Vrubel. Ciurlionis was a musician in painting, a painter in music and a mystic in both. Composer's work chronologically also coincides with artistic work. The most famous are his symphonic poems In the Forest, written in 1900, and The Sea, completed in 1907. In the years 1903-1908 Ciurlionis created almost all of his paintings.

The museum is dedicated to the works of the famous Lithuanian artist and composer. Here are a large number of his paintings, documents related to life and work, and recordings of symphonic works, which can be heard in the music hall.

However, the museum presents not only the exposition of the great master, but also a magnificent collection of folk wooden sculpture and painting of the last century. It is impossible without delight to look at the simultaneously simple-minded and high art of unknown Lithuanian masters. For example, in one of the paintings you can see the praying Saint Isidore, who is considered the patron saint of the peasantry. The artist depicted a kneeling saint, his wide-brimmed hat, taken off and neatly placed next to him before reading a prayer, as well as another object of great importance - a rake, which, apparently, they should assure the viewer that the saint truly belongs to the common people. The episode in the lower right corner of the canvas clearly hints that thanks to prayer, plowing is better argued. While Saint Isidore reads a prayer, the angel himself helps him, walking across the field for a plow.

Also, the collection of the museum includes collections of Lithuanian painting of the 17th - early 20th centuries. Among the old anonymous paintings, the most interesting are the portraits of the Polish nobility. In the halls of the early 20th century, 2 small paintings can be distinguished, belonging to the pen of Mstislav Dobuzhinsky.

Despite all the richness of the exposition, the heart of the Kaunas museum is the collection of works by M.K. Ciurlionis. Ciurlionis, like Scriabin, believed in the mysterious inner transformation of humanity through art. Getting to the Kaunas Museum, you plunge into a special mysterious world invented by Ciurlionis, where the top and bottom shift, gravity does not exist, ships hang in the sky, and on the seabed there is an ordinary Lithuanian village, a world where the day is terrible and the night brings peace. It is such a fantastic, not biblical creation of the world that is born in 13 paintings of the cycle of the same name, which became one of the main works of Ciurlionis, presented in the exhibition.

Music and painting are combined in the famous "Sonatas" by Ciurlionis. These are three-part or four-part cycles. Looking at them, you never get tired of wondering how the artist managed to convey the musical correlation of elements: a stormy and agitated Allegro, a slow and smooth Andante, a light rude Scherzo and a fast dance and at the same time sublime Finale.

And in the painting "Fugue" musical laws are intricately intertwined and, as is often the case with a professional, a living, disorderly and yet almost unreal forest mysteriously answers an inverted, light and musically ordered forest in the skies.

Ciurlionis created his own, completely extraordinary world, which has been causing delight, surprise, admiration and controversy for 100 years. The museum will warmly welcome everyone who wishes to enjoy this extraordinary art.

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