LITUANUS LITHUANIAN QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   Volume 13, No.1 - Spring 1967 Editor of this issue: Antanas Klimas ISSN 0024-5089 Copyright © 1967 LITUANUS Foundation, Inc.

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NEW WORKS OF TELESFORAS VALIUS

Telesforas Valius (b. 1914) is a contemporary with the group of artists who had taken great interest in Lithuanian folk art, attempting to continue its tradition in modern life. (See an article on Valius, Lituanus, June, 1958.) In exile since 1944, Valius' intense feeling for the primeval, his country and its people inevitably lessened. His latest works show little that might be attributed to folk or national characteristics, which were so evident, for example, in "Five O'Clock in a Lithuanian Village".

Telesforas Valius is a consistent artist. There are no sudden turns or leaps in his work. Each subsequent woodcut, lithograph, or drawing is always based on what was discovered immediately before. However, the essential traits peculiar to him remain: extremely meticulous attention to detail, cultivation of line, and persistently tragic mood.

The colored drawings, from the cycles "Golgotha" and "The Last Morning," reproduced in this issue, are the direct outcome of his long systematic evolvement.

The artist is currently living in Toronto, Canada.

Telesforas Valius, THE LAST MORNING VI    1961,
                            Colored Drawing, 22" x 28"

Five O'clock In A Lithuanian Village    1945
        Woodcut, 7" x 7"

The Last Mortiing VII   1964
     Colored Drawing, 22" x 28"

The Last Mortiing VIII   1964
   Colored Drawing, 22" x 28"

The Last Mortiing IX   1965
   Colored Drawing, 22" x 28"