Little Street of Montmartre, Paris

The landscapes of Parisian streets and squares, architectural monuments, parks, scenes with musicians, circus acrobats, roaming actors, and simple by-standers were particularly favoured motifs in Vytautas Kasiulis’ works. This time the image of Paris’ Montmartre has been coloured in a poetic mood, as if it has been cleansed of the human noise, the vertical composition rising lightly down the line of perspective, until it reaches the white cupolas of the Sacré Couer basilica in the distance. V. Kasiulis’ landscape genre works in which we recognize images of the romantic poets’and painters’ paradise that is Paris are communicated in delicate lines and light-coloured spontaneous strokes. The image of a fun and amicable city accompanied the painter his whole life, giving his works the distinct colours of the Paris school.