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Paintings

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Seasoning

Seasoning series is dedicated to the idea of nature depiction and seasons as a cliché subject for painting, it bounces between tradition of oriental and western painting, digital image making, classical and current ways of depicting space. It consists of 5 images each representing seasons as Japanese romantically count it - spring, summer, autumn, winter and hanami (cherry tree blossoming).

The Spring (Montevideo) painting begins the series. It depicts a mountain composed diagonally pointing towards the corner of the frame, the image of this landscape is non-rectilinear, hemispherical - a distortion similar to a fish-eye lens effect. The unconventional composition of mountain peak contrasts with the naturalistic earthy color palette and the iconology of mountain depiction in landscape painting. The title arrives from the etymology of Uruguay’s capital name Montevideo – a mix of dialects meaning “monte vide eu” (“I saw a mountain”).

Second painting is The Autumn (Hero). It depicts sea waves and cloudy sky with a color palette borrowed from Chinese ink drawings (and wuxia film “Hero”), expressive brushwork imitating calligraphy while rendering the photographical perspective of sea landscape.

The Summer (August) painting brings together the Japanese tradition of depicting landscape called Sansui (which suggests mist and haze through blank space), a medieval map with inaccurate proportions, a digitally simulated computer game map, a satellite photograph of the Earth.

The Winter (Marina) painting shows a classical Romantic motif - Marine landscape, in which a symmetric composition (just like “mirror effect” in Photo Booth) is used to create a realistic-ish stormy, cloudy sea sunset.

Fifth painting is called Hanami, it shows a landscape with a trace of horizontal brushstroke which represents the water’s surface dividing land with cherry trees and its reflection in water, all depicted in sleek, metallic colors.

Perspective as an approximate representation of space is important and varies from photographical, one-point or oblique to internal and external perspective. However, the goal is to offer a broader perspective that would juxtapose different ways of seeing and reading images : medieval, modernist, photographical, calligraphic, impressionist, expressionist, digital, conceptual; to alter and remix romantic imagery.

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August

 2016 Oil on canvas 75 × 95 cm

Rūtenė Merkliopaitė

Photo by Andrej Vasilenko 

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Christina, 2017 Oil on canvas 220 × 205 cm

Rūtenė Merkliopaitė

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Christina 

 2017 Oil on canvas 220 × 205 cm

Rūtenė Merkliopaitė

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Marina (Winter) from Seasoning series

 oil on canvas, 80 × 90 cm, 2017

Rūtenė Merkliopaitė

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Montevideo (Spring) from Seasoning series

oil on canvas, 31 × 27 cm, 2016

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Hanami from  Seasoning series

Oil on canvas, 50 × 65 cm, 2016

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August (Summer) from Seasoning series

 Oil on canvas, 75 × 95 cm, 2016

Rūtenė Merkliopaitė

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Hero (Autumn) from Seasoning series

oil on canvas, 31 × 27 cm, 2016

Rūtenė Merkliopaitė

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Sygiz, 2016 Oil on canvas 128 × 94 cm A portrait of writer’s quill.

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X-scene, oil on canvas, 194 × 140 cm,  2017

Rūtenė Merkliopaitė

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Vetements, oil on canvas, 208 × 130 cm, 2017

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Eve (at Vilnius Old Town)

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Troye