Solomonas Teitelbaumas

Solomonas Teitelbaumas curiously explores the environment and recreates what he sees in relief layers of viscous paint, striving to bring to light the distinct mood of the motif and the peculiar features of the landscape, building or a person’s posture, movement and character. The background of clouded sky in his paintings is just as alive as the building’s stonework, tree branches or human silhouettes. He paints in broad, brisk, nervous strokes, reducing, erasing, striking out, or, conversely, highlighting, magnifying, generalising details. When painting, he appears to remember other people’s experiences, projecting the old facts, myths and fantasies into the existing images of the present. Although he paints from nature, developing an individual iconography, the characters, nature, urban landscapes and objects are nevertheless shaped in the process of painting as well, undegoing various metamorphoses associated with various mental states.