Annunciation

In this Annunciation, as in other paintings featuring religious motifs, P. Domšaitis combined themysticism of medieval art, the plastic art of wooden Lithuanian folk sculptures and the stylistics of Late Expressionism. Based on dynamic forms, planes of colour and the rhythm of streams of light, the composition swells with moving exuberance. The expressive streams of light transport the moment into the infinite Universe. It is as if P. Domšaitis has captured the exact moment when other-wordly beams of light, a metaphor for the good news, touch Mary, glowing in a halo of light herself. Already early on in his career, art critics had noticed that P. Domšaitis was a person who was living in a world of symbols and stood out for his ability to create poetry using pure painting as his tool.