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METHODOLOGICAL FUND OF THE ACADEMY OF ARTS
STUDENT DRAWINGS EXHIBITION "YEARBORDER, TODAY, TOMORROW..."
The exhibition features some of the drawings collected and stored in the drawing and painting collections of the Academy of Arts, Faculty of Arts and Education, Kaunas University of Applied Sciences.
All the drawings in the fund were created on Pelėdų Kalnas, within the walls of the first art school in Lithuania, founded and built (1920-1922) through the efforts of Justinas Vienožinskis. ( It is a pity, but no drawings from that period have survived in the school).
Over the course of a hundred years, one art education institution replaced another in the Art School building many times, but the subject of drawing has always been a core component of all art study programs.
The drawings presented in the exhibition are united not only by the history of the art school building, but also by the intertwined academic and professional paths and personal relationships of the people who worked and studied there.
The foundation's collection contains a number of drawings by well-known personalities, not only in the Lithuanian art world, but also beyond its borders – they were taught drawing skills by famous artists and excellent educators of the country.
The extensive collection of drawings was accumulated and nurtured over several decades as a methodological tool for improving drawing studies, without thinking about public exhibitions at that time. Today, it is constantly supplemented with new student works selected during exams. Collections of the best drawings travel to various exhibition spaces in Kaunas schools and libraries, as well as abroad.
The exhibitions of the Methodological Fund aim to "wipe the dust" off interesting and valuable drawings, to show what drawing was like in the past, and how famous artists not only in Lithuania but also internationally famous began their creative path: Stasys Eidrigevičius, Rimantas Dichavičius, Henrikas Ratkevičius, Stasys Žirgulis, Zenonas Šteinys, Elvyra Kairiukštytė, Alvydas Jonaitis, Juozas Šlivinskas, Valentinas Varnas, Eglė Ridikaitė, Jonas Gasiūnas, Audronė Petrašiūnaitė, Juozas Statkevičius, etc.
The collection includes the oldest (1950s) and most recent (1960s) student drawings, reflecting the topics, objectives, teaching methodology, and changes in the development and evolution of drawing.
A small number of drawings by various authors have been selected for the exhibition, only partially reflecting this process of change, influenced by many factors: the change of generations of teachers, changes and specifics of the goals and objectives of study programs, the decrease in the amount of time allocated to drawing, the emergence of digital technologies, which question the concept of drawing as traditionally understood. Is drawing losing its importance today? Is it still believed that it is necessary with the advent of digital technologies? And what will it be tomorrow?… It is difficult to answer today, but one wants to believe that learning drawing as a subject is important for a person, developing the perception of the forms and colors of the world around him - achieving accuracy and firmness of eye and hand movements, observation, perception of form, spatial thinking and the formation of imagination and aesthetic taste.
KK MUF MA lecturer Sigutė Bronickienė
Exhibition curators:
Drawing Studies subject teachers
BIRUTĖ SLEŽIENĖ
SIGUTE BRONICKIENĖ
