Ceramic artist Ona Kreivytė-Naruševičienė died Tradition

Ona Kreivytė-Naruševičienė was born in 1935. October 31 Jovaišai, Deltuva county.

1944-1950 studied at Deltuva’s seven-year college, and in 1954 graduated from Ukmergė secondary college. 1954-1961 she studied in Vilnius, on the then artwork institute within the School of Ceramics.

1960-1974 O. Kreivytė-Naruševičienė labored as a methodologist on the People Artwork Palace and as a supervisor. an artist. 1974-1994 – on the ceramics workshop of Vilnius “Dailė” mix, 1994-1995. artist of the corporate “Vilniaus dailė”.

In 1964, he grew to become a member of the Union of Lithuanian Artists.

Since 1961 she participated in exhibitions in Lithuania and overseas – in Poland, France and Italy.

The artist’s work was observed fairly early. The patriarch of Lithuanian ceramics, Liudvikas Strolis, former instructor of O. Kreivytė-Naruševičienė, acknowledged within the catalog of her first private exhibition: “When evaluating the work of the artist O. Kreivytė, consideration needs to be paid to the simplicity of the types of her works, the delicate resolution of themes, to the attractive, noble feeling that characterizes lots of her works. works. With out belittling the deserves of the artist, right here I see the optimistic affect of maestro J. Mikėnas within the small types of sculpture. Her works have quite simple kinds, human, comprehensible to everybody and creative on the identical time”.

Photograph of the archive of the Union of Lithuanian Artists/Ona Kreivytė-Naruševičienė. Beekeeper

She created narrative small-form ceramic sculptures on the theme of rural, fishermen’s life (“Fishermen” in 1973, “Potter’s Household” in 1977), monumental ornamental plastic works for exteriors (“Pillars” I-III in 1972), parks, summary silhouette compositions (“Fireplace of Life” in 1976, “Autumn” in 1978, “Reminiscences of Italy” in 1979, “Rafts of Life” in 1988), three-dimensional compositions (“Clouds of Childhood” in 1985), vases, plates.

Ornamental ceramic panels created by her will be present in private and non-private interiors in Vilnius (“Outdated City”, “New City”, Vilnius Airport, 1997, together with her husband and son J. and R. Naruševičius), in different cities.

Her works are characterised by stylized kinds, restrained earth colours, the fabric and texture of chamotte clay stand out in them.

Photograph of the archive of the Union of Lithuanian Artists/Ona Kreivytė-Naruševičienė. Autumn

In keeping with artwork researcher Laima Krevytė, the ceramist drew inspiration from a well known surroundings – her childhood spent within the village and distant travels, household life and a efficiency that fired her creativeness.

“Nonetheless, particular biographies and home particulars at all times move by means of the double hearth of not solely the furnace, but in addition the fantasy. Subsequently, the figurative compositions, ornamental panels, inside and exterior ceramics created by the artist are characterised by sublimity, romantic religion within the energy of artwork and creativeness”, L. Kreivytė acknowledged.

Particular person exhibitions of O. Kreivytė-Naruševičienė had been held in Vilnius in 1974, 1985, 1997, 2006, and in Kaunas in 2000.

in 2007 the artist was thanked by the mayor of Vilnius for her long-term promotion of ceramic artwork, and in 2015 she was awarded the golden badge of the Lithuanian Union of Artists for her work.

The works of the artist have been bought by the Lithuanian Artwork Museum, the Nationwide Museum of Lithuania, and the Nationwide Čiurlionis Artwork Museum.