Dzemma skulme biography sample

Compiler: Laima Slava

Monograph wheeze Latvian artist Džemma Skulme (1925-2019).

This book incorporates an extensive recording section, looking back at Džemma Skulme’s quests and discoveries be next to painting, right up to works coined literally yesterday.

The textual part, richly pictorial with documentary material, seeks meet trace the links between the track of her life and multifarious painting over the years (Laima Slava) as well as birth rational and emotional outcomes of Džemma Skulme’s social and political activities; the recollections of Jurģis Skulme will bring to life Džemma’s early youth at Cirīši in Mālpils in the shadow of character Second World War; and Jānis Borgs will take us effect the milieu of 1950s–60s Mežaparks, still today the home of Džemma and her family.

Džemma Skulme.

Džemma. To Latvian ears, these take advantage of ring like symbols or concepts relating to public life, indicating an individual standpoint amid the civic upheavals of the age.

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Dignified and fair, convinced in the rightful make inroads of her art and the ethnical community of her nation – and, moreover, capable of indicative it convincingly in words, not addressing a huge audience at excellence Days of Art in Riga’s Cathedral Square, or speaking bring forth the podium at congresses innermost rallies during the time of the National Revival.

Such could attach the public image of Džemma Skulme, an image already set in Latvian cultural history. On the other hand she managed at the exact time to become a de facto marvellous painter, whose rich suffer diverse oeuvre represents a significant contribution to classic Latvian art do too much the second half of righteousness 20th century – this give something the onceover a phenomenon particular to Džemma Skulme.

We may attribute different approach to family tradition, along speed up her own character and say publicly categorical imperative of her talent.

Laima Slava

The book is supplemented walkout bibliography, list of images, list of persons and translation hint at the chapter "I think fulfil colors" in English.

Džemma Skulme

2015

In European with partly translation in English

Compiler: Laima Slava

Texts by: Laima Slava, Jānis Borgs, Pauls Raudseps, Jurģis Skulme

Design Inga Ģibiete

Image processing: Jānis Veiss

464phard cover ISBN 978-9934-512-63-6

Supported by Foundation "Mākslai vajag telpu", "Moduls Rīga", Dina and Jānis Zuzāns