Bronius Gražys (b. 1952) is a Lithuanian painter and graphic artist, a professor at the Vilnius Academy of Arts and a former member of the unofficial group Penketas (“The Five”) and the group 24. His works are held by the Lithuanian National Museum of Art and the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. His early compositions on dark grounds gave way to bright, mosaic-like canvases with semi-abstract figures, cats, fish and boats, steeped in a dreamlike, surreal mood.
Bronius Gražys (b. 1952, Kaunas, Lithuania) is a Lithuanian painter and graphic artist. He graduated from the Lithuanian Art Institute (now the Vilnius Academy of Arts) in 1976 and later became a professor there. He was a member of the unofficial artists’ group Penketas (“The Five”) and of the group 24, active from 1989 to 2000. His early work consisted of figurative compositions and landscapes set against dark backgrounds, combined with multicoloured passages. In later years his palette became bright and his surfaces shimmering, resembling mosaics, with semi-abstract forms of human figures, cats, fish, boats and cups. A dreamlike, surreal atmosphere and paradoxical combinations of motifs run through his work. Among his works are “Speaking” (1990), “Hanging Eye” (1991), “Goblet and Apple” (1998) and “Red Waves” (2000). He has held numerous solo exhibitions in Vilnius, as well as in Klaipėda, Druskininkai, Varėna and Copenhagen. His works are held by the Lithuanian National Museum of Art, the M. K. Čiurlionis National Museum of Art in Kaunas and the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. In 2012 he received the gold badge of the Lithuanian Artists’ Association. The painting “Waiting for” (1987), oil on canvas, offered by TUMO Gallery, comes from the period before his turn to the brighter, mosaic-like palette of his later work.
