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Bytes Europe @[email protected] · 2026-05-21 · 06:50 UTC

M. K. Čiurlionis Memorial Consecration in Marki, Poland https://www.byteseu.com/2039651/ #AntanasVaškys #CrossCrafting #DepartmentOfCulturalHeritage #Lithuania #LithuanianCultureInPoland #Marki #MikalojusKonstantinasČiurlionis #UNESCO

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Hotspur🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @[email protected] · 2025-12-11 · 01:10 UTC

"Creation of the World II," Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, 1906.

Čiurlionis (1875-1911) was a Lithuanian Symbolist painter who was, very obviously, a pioneer of Abstract art.

Believed to have synesthesia, a confusing of sensory input (hearing colors, tasting sounds, etc.), many of his works are named for musical compositions (he was also a composer). This canvas is from a 13-part series, "The Creation of the World," and this depicts the early stages of the formation of the solar system. That misty blue light could be a backdrop for Star Trek or the like.

Čiurlionis studied Theosophy, mythology, and religion, as well as science, and much of his visual work reflects a passionate spiritual vision that can be hard to discern. This isn't far from the REAL first Abstract artist, Hilma af Klint, whose strange and lovely abstract works were her way of communicating spiritual visions.

Interestingly, Čiurlionis had studied the latest work on the formation of stars, and this paint is almost eerie in how it almost perfectly captures the now-common sight of the gas clouds that function as stellar nurseries in the cosmos.

From the M. K. Čiurlionis National Art Museum, Kaunas, Lithuania.

#Art #Symbolism #MikalojusKonstantinasCiurlionis #SciFi #AbstractArt #Stars

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Hotspur🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @[email protected] · 2025-09-04 · 00:19 UTC

"Sonata No. 6 (Stellar Sonata)," Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, 1908.

Čiurlionis (1875-1911) was a Lithuanian artist and composer, best remembered for a series of abstract paintings in which he sought to visually capture musical composition.

This work is one of two that feature a musicalized version of outer space as well as a vision of divinity. We have an orb swirling in the mist, a vision of the solar system, an angelic being, and a pyramid...or is it a beam of light?

Čiurlionis felt he had synesthesia; he saw music as colors and images, and vice versa, and much of his work was an attempt to express that. Some of his early work was Art Nouveau or Symbolist, but this marks his emergence as a pioneer of Abstract art. His work is strange and compelling; like Hilma af Klint, there's a sense of a profound inner vision, highly personal and difficult to discern.

From the M. K. Čiurlionis National Museum of Art, Kaunas, Lithuania.

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#Synesthesia #MusicAsArt #VisionaryArt