Abandoned graveyard

B. Buyko painted his picture Abandoned graveyard when he was a student at the Cracow Academy of Art. The influence of symbolism in art characteristic to the juncture of the 19th and 20th centuries is felt in the picture. The dying nature in autumn, the rundown chapel and the dilapidated crosses overgrown with weeds express the ideas of the impermanence of human existence – an inevitable disappearance conditioned by the inexorable laws of nature and oblivion.

Source: Law firm Valiunas Ellex art album THE WORLD OF LANDSCAPES I (2010). Text authors Nijolė Tumėnienė, Dalia Tarandaitė
Expositions: “Académie de Vilna. Vilnius Drawing School (1866–1915)”, 5 October – 26 November 2017, National Gallery of Art, Vilnius (curator Jolanta Širkaitė). Published: Académie de Vilna: Vilniaus piešimo mokykla 1866-1915 / Vilnius drawing school: Exhibition Catalogue, Nacionalinė dailės galerija 2017 m. 4 d. - lapkričio 26 d., compiled by Jolanta Širkaitė, Vilnius: Lietuvos kultūros tyrimų institutas, 2017, p. 114.

B. Buyko painted his picture Abandoned graveyard when he was a student at the Cracow Academy of Art. The influence of symbolism in art characteristic to the juncture of the 19th and 20th centuries is felt in the picture. The dying nature in autumn, the rundown chapel and the dilapidated crosses overgrown with weeds express the ideas of the impermanence of human existence – an inevitable disappearance conditioned by the inexorable laws of nature and oblivion.

Source: Law firm Valiunas Ellex art album THE WORLD OF LANDSCAPES I (2010). Text authors Nijolė Tumėnienė, Dalia Tarandaitė
Expositions: “Académie de Vilna. Vilnius Drawing School (1866–1915)”, 5 October – 26 November 2017, National Gallery of Art, Vilnius (curator Jolanta Širkaitė). Published: Académie de Vilna: Vilniaus piešimo mokykla 1866-1915 / Vilnius drawing school: Exhibition Catalogue, Nacionalinė dailės galerija 2017 m. 4 d. - lapkričio 26 d., compiled by Jolanta Širkaitė, Vilnius: Lietuvos kultūros tyrimų institutas, 2017, p. 114.