Autumn in an oak wood

The interwar paintings of J. Vaitys were especially influenced by Expressionism (this is clear by the subjects and the visual language). After 1940, his work was characterised by a more strongly expressed latecomer Impressionism, intertwined with other trends in art: Post-Impressionism, Expressionism and the Decorative Synthetic Realism. During the war, Vaitys kept in touch with V. Kairiūkštis and A. Galdikas, who helped him to maintain his artistic spirit. His landscapes remained colourful and emotional, and he painted freely and aspired to harmony in colouring by joining together trees painted in fine vibrant strokes and meadows, in an artistic whole which conveyed impressions of nature in Lithuania. He was more successful with his smaller sketch-type pictures. He was interested in the dynamic conditions of nature: the change from winter to spring, and summer to autumn, and the transitional state of nature before a storm or rain. Vaitys liked in particular to portray the spirit of nature in the autumn, from the golden beauty of the foliage, when the trees are dressed up in colourful clothes, to the last rays of the warm sun in the late autumn.

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