26.07.2018 - 01.09.2018.

JURIS ĢĒRMANIS. WOMEN AND NATURE

Juris Ģērmanis was born on 16 June 1941 in Riga. Studied at Jānis Rozentāls Riga Art Highschool (1952-1960). In 1966 graduated from the Latvian Academy of Art, Department of Painting. Member of the Artists’ Union of Latvia since 1975. In 1998 he received Master of Arts degree.

He has worked in art pedagogy for many years. Has actively participated in the work of the Artists’ Union of Latvia as a Board member of AU.

Since 1967, he has regularly participated in the exhibitions both in Latvia and abroad. The artist’s works are located at the Museum of the History of Riga and Navigation, the Latvian National Museum of Art, the Museum of the Artists’ Union of Latvia, Talsi Regional Museum, Cēsis History and Art Museum, as well as in the private collections in Latvia, the USA, Australia, Poland, Finland, Sweden, Germany, etc.

The exhibited works were created between 2000 and 2018 and cover two important themes of the artist’s creation - the female figure and the landscape. The exhibition “Women and Nature” laconically marks the sources of the inspiration of Juris Gērmanis during his creative life and they are still topical.

First of all, Juris Ģērmanis considers himself a figure painter. There have been created both the portraits of many people known to the public and the psychological portraits rich in moods, but above all – the women. The image of a woman as the main source of the inspiration for the artist – spirit of the moods, plasticity of forms, going more deeply into the individuality of each personality – in both portraits and nudes.

The second theme is related to landscape painting in plenaries in the nature of Latvia - sultriness, wind, rain - it all fits into the process of realizing the beauty of the moment and its manifestation in art. Work in the plenaries for many years characterizes the artist’s handwriting - concentration and ability to work creatively here and now, capturing the magic of the moment. Technical virtuosity and a sense of colour given by nature helps to convey his vision accurately to the viewer.

The artist glorifies not only the magnificence of Latvian nature and people, but also works abroad. In the exhibition will be possible to see paintings made in Morocco what is a separate theme that highlights Juris Gērmanis' art from another perspective. Oriental exotics in the eyes of Nordic man.

The real environment and the people who are painted from nature are always important to Juris Ģērmanis. There are three important aspects in the works - tonal harmony of colours, composition and exact drawing - which the artist has mastered at both Jānis Rozentāls Art School at the artist Arnolds Griķis and Latvian Academy of Art at the artists Ārijs Skride, Kondrāts Ubāns, Indulis Zariņš and Eduards Kalniņš under guidance of which he also elaborated his diploma paper. The artist has still remained loyal to the qualities of the Latvian School of Painting.

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