Abava Valley in Spring

Oil on canvas, 130x130 cm, 1993 /// Herberts Siliņš (1926-2001) is one of the representatives of modern Latvian painting of the second half of the 20th century. He has participated in international and local exhibitions from the beginning of his career until the end of his life. In his paintings dominate yachts, seaside, landscape and cities. His painting style can be described as pastose and expressive with tendency to conditionality and abstract form. The paint is applied on a canvas in a thick layer with dynamic stokes, thus creating an expressive surface texture. The composition is structured and extended throughout the plane of the canvas. A stylized spring landscape has been chosen as the motif for the specific painting. The large format of the canvas also gives the colour expressiveness and monumentality. The artist’s signature on lower left side of the painting.