{"id":24048,"date":"2025-06-26T09:44:52","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T06:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/vilniaus-paveikslu-galerija\/parodos\/the-romanticisms\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T09:44:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T06:44:52","slug":"the-romanticisms","status":"publish","type":"paroda","link":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/en\/vilnius-picture-gallery\/exhibitions\/the-romanticisms\/","title":{"rendered":"The Romanticisms"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Without spirit, without heart \u2013 these are but crowds of skeletons!\u00a0<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Emerging as a countermovement to the rationalism of Classicism, Romanticism swept across Europe as a new artistic and literary movement that opened up space for emotions, dreams, and individualism. The genius of the creator began to be boldly exalted, spiritual values were elevated above material ones, and those seeking moral support or inspiration were encouraged to look backwards, to a past stretching back centuries. In Lithuania, however, Romanticism \u2018lingered\u2019; rather than yielding to Realism, which was gaining prominence in the West during the second half of the 19th century, it transformed into Neo-romanticism, or National Romanticism, which inventively employed the expressive means of Symbolism, Art Nouveau, and other contemporary styles.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This distinctive transformation arose from Lithuania\u2019s specific political and cultural situation. Forcibly incorporated into Tsarist Russia precisely when voices extolling personal and national freedom began spreading from the West, and having endured the failed November (1830\u20131831) and January (1863\u20131864) Uprisings with the deaths and exile of its bravest citizens, the land clung to its traditions more firmly than ever before. The bards of Romanticism \u2013 with pen, brush, and piano keys \u2013 tirelessly created for an entire century the image of the grand Grand Duchy of Lithuania, a dreamland and era shrouded in nostalgic mist, providing a space in which the nation could survive.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The exhibition takes as its starting point the first volume of Adam Mickiewicz\u2019s <\/span>Poetry<\/span><\/i>, published in Vilnius in 1822, for it was at Vilnius University that the Vilnius school of Romanticism, common to both Lithuanian and Polish culture, emerged and flourished. The endpoint is marked by the outbreak of the First World War (1914), which brought about great historical, political, and social changes in the region whilst also defining the thematic and chronological boundaries of the Vilnius Picture Gallery.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The exhibition narrative has been constructed contextually to illuminate the connections and differences between local processes and international aesthetic and social developments. The exhibition thus invites us to view Romanticism as a cultural formation in which various art forms, politics, and social changes are closely intertwined, together creating a complex, multifaceted narrative that, in Lithuania\u2019s case, is by no means always \u2018romantic\u2019.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Organizer LNDM Vilniaus paveiksl\u0173 galerija <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Exhibition Curators: Aist\u0117 Bimbiryt\u0117, Gabija Kasparavi\u010diut\u0117-Kaminskien\u0117, Dalia Tarandait\u0117, Joana Vitkut\u0117 <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Architect Jurgis Dagelis <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Designers: Edita Namaj\u016bnien\u0117, Domantas Pigulevi\u010dius<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Editor Laura Patiomkinait\u0117<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Translator Raminta Bumbulyt\u0117 <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Conservators: Algimantas Vaineikis, Lina Jurnien\u0117,\u00a0Audron\u0117 Petro\u0161evi\u010di\u016bt\u0117, Paulius Zov\u0117, Ar\u016bnas Baublys,\u00a0Birut\u0117 Mi\u0161kinien\u0117, Inga Petkutyt\u0117, Daiva Petrauskait\u0117,\u00a0Milda \u0160ulni\u016bt\u0117 (trainee), Elena Adelina Kofman (trainee) \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Partners: Lithuanian National Museum, National\u00a0Museum\u00a0– Palace of the\u00a0Grand Dukes\u00a0of Lithuania, Vilnius University Museum, Vilnius University Library, The Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, Martynas Ma\u017evydas National Library of Lithuania, Lithuanian Theater, Music and Cinema Museum, The Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, W\u0142adys\u0142aw Syrokomla Museum, M. K. \u010ciurlionis National Museum of Art, Samogitian Museum Alka,\u00a0Ukmerg\u0117 Regional Museum, \u0160iauliai Au\u0161ros Museum, Trakai History Museum, Lithuanian Art Centre TARTLE, Muzeum literatury im. Adama Mickiewicza, Muzeum Narodowe w Krakowie, R\u016bta and Rimvydas Baranauskai, Dr Jaunius Gumbis, Dr Kristina Sabaliauskait\u0117, Milanijus Jankauskas, BTA Insurance<\/p>\n

Media sponsor JCDecaux Lithuania<\/span><\/p>\n

Project is financed by Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania<\/span><\/p>\n

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