{"id":1409,"date":"2022-03-29T00:59:29","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T21:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.artkaunas.com\/?post_type=kaunas2022&#038;p=1409"},"modified":"2022-06-05T20:01:05","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T17:01:05","slug":"antanas-martinaitis","status":"publish","type":"kaunas2022","link":"https:\/\/artkaunas.com\/en\/kaunas2022\/antanas-martinaitis\/","title":{"rendered":"Antanas Martinaitis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"slider slider-for\">\n\t\t\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t\t<img style='object-fit: scale-down;width: 100%;' class=\"swipe\" data-index='0' data-height='781' data-width='1100' data-link=\"https:\/\/artkaunas.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/03\/Martinaitis.jpg\" data-src='https:\/\/artkaunas.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/03\/Martinaitis.jpg' src='https:\/\/artkaunas.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/03\/Martinaitis.jpg' style='margin:0 auto;'>\n\t\t\t\t<p class='aprasymas' style='text-align:center; line-height: 1em;margin-top:10px;'>Latophages, 1980. <\/p>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t\t<img style='object-fit: scale-down;width: 100%;' class=\"swipe\" data-index='1' data-height='800' data-width='1077' data-link=\"https:\/\/artkaunas.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/03\/Martinaitis2.jpg\" data-src='https:\/\/artkaunas.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/03\/Martinaitis2.jpg' src='https:\/\/artkaunas.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/03\/Martinaitis2.jpg' style='margin:0 auto;'>\n\t\t\t\t<p class='aprasymas' style='text-align:center; line-height: 1em;margin-top:10px;'>Evening by the lake,  1965.<\/p>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/artkaunas.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/06\/06-EN-Martinaitis.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption><strong>Listen to the story<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Antanas Martinaitis (1939-1986) and his colleagues.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The long-living four-year fine arts\u2019 school of the city was given the name of Antanas Martinaitis only in this century. This art school is famous not only for having employed the famous painter of the 20<sup>th <\/sup>century, but also his comrades. Martinaitis was working along with the painters Povilas Ri\u010dardas Vaitiek\u016bnas, Laima Drazdauskait\u0117, graphic artist Edmundas Salad\u017eius, aquarellist Algirdas Luk\u0161tas and others, all of whom have left an indelible impression on the majority of the younger artists.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was the school (back then it was called Kaunas four-year children\u2019s art school, located in Tartu St.) where Salad\u017eius and Vaitiek\u016bnas would draw \u201cstories\u201d on a same sheet of paper with Antanas Martinaitis in 1970s and 80s. They later summarised these spontaneous colourful composition with a name \u201cPsychedelia\u201d. The school was lead by a beloved principal Laima Baranauskien\u0117 at that time and was commonly known as an excellent refuge for painters tormented by the grey and red regime. Salad\u017eius remembers Martinaitis often taking the role of master of ceremonies in this oasis of fine arts, a school microworld, with remarkable optimism and cheer. The leisure did not go to waste too, the painters would paint their \u201cpsychedelia\u201d while fantasizing about literature, art, travel and things that were out of reach (the West seemed like a utopia from behind the so-called iron curtain).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Free schedule (time off from marking the work of students), spontaneity and brainstorming of the teachers allowed for the creation of such works. They were not thinking about showing these pieces anywhere and if it wasn\u2019t for their colleague Laima Drazdauskait\u0117, who used to collect these visual stories, we would not have known about their existence.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Almost all colleagues were good friends and could not be satisfied by just talk, they\u2019d start drawing characters and subjects of their stories, others would start adding more and more, thus creating conceptually inclined drawings. Salad\u017eius would often remember what he used to draw. He used to travel a lot back then and although there were not any trips to Western Europe, he had friends in the Caucasus, so he would visit there. He would draw Istanbul, Armenian locations. The pencil made commenting on conversations easier. According to Salad\u017eius: \u201cWe would do everything in jest\u2026 What did we use to draw? Anything within reach, there were pencils, marker pens left on the table. This gave way for small fun pictures teetering on the edge of insanity. That why we used to call them psychedelia. Such a fantasy provoking game. Everything happened so easily and naturally. A thought would concur with the pencil line\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some time later the painters along with Drazdauskait\u0117 tried to identify the authors of the drawings, Drazdauskait\u0117 gave a lot of the drawings to Antanas\u2019 son, Arvydas Martinaitis, others were given to a museum. These drawings are quite difficult to \u201cread\u201d after all these years, it contains everything \u2013 wit, irony, poetic moods, romance mixed with harsh critique, and so many particular events that we are unable to decode any more, we can just sense them. 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