Fine Art Reproductions
Museum-quality reproduction prints on fine art paper or heavy canvas are available for this artwork. Printed with archival pigment inks for exceptional resolution and longevity.
IN THE SHADOW OF THE Freedom Dags Vidulejs’ painting presents a dense crowd of frontal faces packed across the canvas, each head outlined in thin pink and violet lines and built with broad, layered brushstrokes. Cool whites and blues gather in the upper field, while warmer ochres, golds, and rose tones intensify toward the foreground against a deep blue ground. The artist’s signature and date appear at the lower right. Exhibition “Primum mobile” Painter Dags Vidulejs’ works for the exhibition “Primum mobile” were created, inspired by the monumental poem “Divine Comedy” by the Italian poet and philosopher Dante Alighieri. “Divine Comedy” Dante dedicated the third part of “Divine Comedy” “Paradise” to his patron – Mr. Cangrande della Scala. In a letter, Dante writes to him: “We can say briefly that the purpose of the entire work and (the third) part is to lift those living in this life out of misery and lead them to bliss. (..) Both the part and the work as a whole are designed for practice, not theory.” Interpretation of Dags Vidulejs Responding to the most important thing that interested him in Dante’s text, painter Dags Vidulejs reveals: “Dante includes his experience, what he has experienced in 100 cantos – in the light of Love, Faith and Hope. In the form of poetry, he outlines a vision of how space, environment, and sectors of the universe through which Dante travels change as his consciousness changes. Gaining experience, changing his attitude, after performing heroic, altruistic, and love-dictated actions, Dante becomes more sighted, he begins to see the Heavens open.” Social context In the socio-political context of recent years, we have become acutely aware of the darkest aspects of existence. The artist’s efforts to interpret Dante’s depictions of the origin of Time and Space (Primum mobile) in painting and to involve us on the path of truth discovery (the path that leads away from misery) currently seem to be very important – both for all of us as a society and for each individual. Dags Vidulejs tirelessly sets himself new tasks in his creative searches. His sensitive nature, cultivated intuition, and rich imagination help him on this path. Exhibition opening Exhibition opening at the Jurmala Museum About this artwork: Classification, Techniques & Styles Acrylic Paint using traditional pigments mixed with synthetic resins. Ink A strongly tinted liquid or paste that is used to mark paper or other printable materials. The design is done manually with a slab, feather, brush, or straightener. Lacquer Paint made with a resin from tree sap, various shrubs or with lacquer paints based on thermosetting resins. The technique consists in superimposing layers of lacquers with a vigorous polishing between each layer. It is mostly smooth shiny, but can sometimes also be satin or very Matt. Oil Paint consisting of pigments bound with linseed oil or carnations. The traditional technique consists of superimposing layers of paint increasingly rich in oil for a solid and durable hanger. Technic Painting Painting is an art form of painting on a surface by aesthetically applying colored fluids. Painters represent a very personal expression on supports such as paper, rock, canvas, wood, bark, glass, concrete and many other substrates. Work of representation or invention, painting can be naturalistic and figurative, or abstract. It can have narrative, descriptive, symbolic, spiritual, or philosophical content.
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