Vytautas Janulionis
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Vytautas Janulionis was a Lithuania
Lithuania
Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...

n glass artist. He was born in Klaipėda
Klaipeda
Klaipėda is a city in Lithuania situated at the mouth of the Nemunas River where it flows into the Baltic Sea. It is the third largest city in Lithuania and the capital of Klaipėda County....

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In 1969-1976, he studied at M. K. Čiurlionis secondary art school. He graduated from the Art Institute in Tallinn
Estonian Academy of Arts
The Estonian Academy of Arts is the only public university in Estonia providing higher education in art, design, architecture, media, art history and conservation-restoration...

, in 1981. Since 1981, he taught at Vilnius Academy of Art
Vilnius Academy of Art
The Vilnius Academy of Art in Vilnius, Lithuania, grants a variety of degrees in the arts.The academy was created as a separate entity in 1940; it had previously been part of Vilnius University. It was closed during the Nazi occupation of Lithuania, and re-opened in 1944...

, Kaunas Art Institute.
Since 1988, he was a member of the Lithuanian Artists' Association.

Works

He created distinctive glass and plastic compositions ("Rain" in 1985, "Silent Light" in 2001), indoor public stained glass ("Leaves" company "Sema" in Panevezys in 1988, the Pharmaceutical Museum in Kaunas in 1989, a circus in Tula (Russia), 1991, the Kaunas Regional Archives, 1994, New Apostolic Church in Panevezys, 1999

He works are characterized by constructive, with a minimum of colors, the light play of different textures and thickness of glass, colorless glass ground effects; dark glass plates embossed sculptural composition formed by heat.

Since 1983, he participated in exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad, individual exhibitions held in Kaunas in 1994, 2005, in Vilnius in 2005, an international Kanadzavoje 2001 Works to Lithuanian Art Museum, National Museum of Fine Arts Čiurlionis.

External links

  • "Vytautas Janulionis", Vikipedija
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