Artist: Mikalojus Povilas Vilutis
Size: 41 x 34 cm
Museum: MO Museum / MO muziejus (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Technique: Silkscreen
Graphic artist Mikalojus Povilas Vilutis gives his paintings names after he has finished creating them. First, the artist conceives of an image, then he creates it and, finally, he finds a name for it. It would be difficult to imagine any name for these trio of prints other than Aggression. Threatening black and red color contrasts, solid, almost chiseled, shapes that are sometimes punctured by sharp lines. We can recognize human figures but they lack sexual identity, appearing like a body mass created of emotions.All three paintings are given the same name, but they each speak of a different form of aggression.• The first figure (Aggression I) is focused on itself like a menacing mountain. The lines spinning around it resemble annoying, angry thoughts. Infested with these, we can feel a loneliness which, when mixed with anger, very often ignites aggression. In the first painting the threat is only building, like a dark storm cloud.• The second painting (Aggression II) is different. Lines erratically scattered across a black background surround the head of a screaming figure. Looking at this painting, it is impossible not to recall a turbulent argument, or the faces of screaming people who are no longer able to hear anything else. Aggression flung in all directions is powerful and uncontrollable. But it is also, we notice, a bit funny. In his writings, Vilutis doesn
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