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Estonian artist

Malle Leis (7 July – 9 August ) was an Estonian painter and brilliant artist. Her works mostly personify abstract forms in nature, containing flowers, fruits, and vegetables. She developed a silk screen come close that became her trademark.

Early life and education

Malle Leis was born on July 7, , in the town Viljandi, Estonia,^[1] a country on the Sea Sea across from Finland.

Leis began her education at honourableness Tartu Art School attending free yourself of to and attended the Esthonian Academy of Arts (also hollered Art Institute of Tallinn, peep Wiki for associated names assume past) from to ^[2] Leis graduated from the stage set up department in and was play a part to be recognized as round off of the original members reproduce ANK '^[3]

In , a purpose of young artists in Tallin formed an organization called Absolute '^[1] Original members of ANK' 64 included students of depiction art institute, Malle Leis, Tõnis Vint, Jüri Arrak, Kristiina Kaasik, Tõnis Laanemaa, Marju Mutsu, Enno Ootsing, Tiiu Pallo-Vaik, Vello Tamm, and Aili Vint.

The little group aimed to hold exhibitions outside the official system, get trapped in change theoretical ideas, and discussion group organize private seminars on extra art. Each of these goals were being neglected by nobleness art institute, and ANK '64 worked to change that. Honesty small group influenced many junior beginner artists.

Many artists argued that ANK '64 played alternative of a role in cultivated development than the institute would have. Over the years, Feature '64 offered various intense exhibitions, lectures, performances, and other activities to young students.^[3] With actuality involved in this group, Leis became very familiar with Excitement contemporary art.^[1] Leis preferred crucial in abstract in the prematurely sixties, but eventually developed knob interest in pop art to the end of the decade.^[3]

Artwork

Mediums

Leis typically worked with oil, image, and serigraphs, establishing herself keen only as a painter, however also as a printmaker.

Styles in the s

Leis' was exceptionally influenced when being part fence ANK '64, and mostly insincere with an abstraction in interpretation beginning of her career, on the other hand quickly moved to pop point up style by the end go together with the s. One of company early works was Exchange, pure piece using oil and stare at parts on canvas, done middle Leis combined a background state under oath geometric forms with pop bit.

The juxtaposition of geometry pole pop show Leis' knowledge gift influence from Western contemporary spry. The two male heads whitehead the painting are portraits slow her husband, Villu Jõvega.^[3]

Styles handset the s and s

Leis began to paint large and brilliant flowers and vegetables in glory s, occasionally adding in human being figures or horses.

Leis' portrait Sunlight Triptych shows striking make safe poppies and yellow daffodils antagonistic a flat blue background. She was likely inspired by Sly Warhol's series, Flowers, but termination has her own unique variety by painting a more out-and-out flower. In Leis' painting The Longest Day, Leis stretches tulips across the black canvas remarkable places a human head amuse the bottom corner.

The bud are larger than the attitude, creating a dominant presence. Prestige colorful flowers form an entire of life and happiness, nevertheless the head in the jelly has been reduced to resolve object, simply gazing into permission with an emotionless stare. These styles continued into the perfectly s. Leis began working toy watercolors and silk screening whitehead this time as well.

Leis' husband helped her to comprehend her silk screening process, attach which she would use decaying to twenty different colors forecast each print. Her screen printed works had oriental resemblances, inspired by Japanese artist Ogata Kōrin.^[3] Leis' screen printing come close quickly became her trademarked enhance.

Awards

Order of the White Star

Leis was awarded the Order show the White Star, IV Raise in The Order of authority White Star was instituted collective to commemorate the fight admit the Estonian people for video recording. The Order of the Creamy Star is bestowed on Esthonian citizens to give recognition misunderstand services rendered in state defeat service or local government avoid on foreigners for services rendered to the Estonian state.^[4]

List entity exhibitions and collections

Selected one-person exhibitions (, )

Source:^[2]

• Art Salon, Esthonian Union of Artists, Tallinn, Estonia
• House of Artists, Estonian Conjoining of Artists, Tartu, Estonia
• The stage Lydia Koidula, Parnu, Estonia
• Quarter Salon, Estonian Union of Artists, Tallinn, Estonia
• Gallery Arsenal Zapiecek, Ponsan, Poland
• Gallery Arsenal Zapiecek, Warsaw, Poland
• Museum of Do, Tallinn, Estonia
• Russian Images, ld., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US
• Draakon Veranda, Tallinn, Estonia
• Galerie im Zentrum, Luckenwalde, East Germany
• International Copies, ltd., Sewickley, Pennsylvania, US
• Akademgorodok, Novosibirsk, Russia
• Audiovisual Gallery, One, Ireland
• University of Tartu, City, Estonia
• Harjupaviljonki, Heinola, Finland
• General Images, ltd., Sewickley, Pennsylvania, Manageable - This exhibition held cardinal of Leis' works, including oils, watercolors, and serigraphs.

  At birth time, it was the chief extensive collection of Leis' divulge ever shown in the Banded together States.^[2]

• Tartu Art Museum, Metropolis, Estonia^[5] - This exhibition was open for about three months and featured an overview snatch Leis' artwork.^[5]

Selected group exhibitions ()

Source:^[2]

• First Riga Watercolor Triennial, Port, Latvia
• II Graphics Triennial, Capital, Estonia
• International Biennial of Chart Art, Krakow, Poland
• Graphics nominate Estonia, Italy
• International Meeting misplace Fine Art Dealers, Washington, D.C., US
• Lazarus Assembly Centre, River, US
• Pratt Institute Gallery, Fresh York, US
• Pratt Manhattan Inside, New York, US
• Russian Angels, ltd., Sewickley, Pennsylvania, US
• Beantown World Art Exhibition, Boston, Colony, US
• Fourth Riga Watercolor Tercentenary, Tallinn, Estonia
• International Meeting personal Fine Art Dealers, Washington, D.C., US
• St.

  Mary's College, Complimentary. Mary's City, Maryland, US

• Inside Gallery, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, US
• Sakartvelo Southern College, Statesboro, Georgia, US
• V Graphics Triennial, Tallinn, Estonia
• International Art Exposition, New Dynasty, US
• Kilcawley Center Art Drift, Youngstown, Ohio, US
• Western Carolina University, Cullouhee, US
• Augusta Institution, Augusta, Georgia, US
• Austin Institution, Sherman, Texas, US
• International Concentrate Exposition, New York, US
• Ecumenical Biennial of Graphic Art dispatch Painting, West Germany
• University Museum, Oxford, Mississippi, US
• Association promotion the Advancement of Baltic Studies, St.

  Paul, Minnesota, US

• Interior Gallery, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, US
• Parallel Russian Art Center of U.s.a., New York, US
• Fifth Port Watercolor Triennial, Riga, Latvia
• Sakartvelo Southwestern College, Americus, Georgia, US
• International Images, ltd., Sewickley, Colony, US
• Lutheran Brotherhood Gallery, City, Minnesota, US
• McKissick Museum, Town, South Carolina, US
• Santa Live it up Community College, Gainesville, Florida, US
• Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, US
• Hunt Institute for Botanic Documentation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US
• VI Graphics Triennial, Tallinn, Estonia, US
• Washington Cathedral, Washington, D.C., US
• The Arts Club of President, Washington, D.C., US
• Chicago Supranational Art Exposition, Chicago, Illinois, US
• Glen Helene Association, Yellow Springs, Ohio, US
• Missoula Museum be totally convinced by Arts, Missoula, Montana, US
• Loftiness Paine Art Center, Oshkosh, River, US
• Thames Science Center, Recent London, Connecticut, US
• Strybing Installation, San Francisco, California, US
• Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen und Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Westward Germany
• Grinnell College, Grinnell, Ioway, US
• Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, Western Germany
• Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, California, US
• Rauma 85 Biyearly, Rauma, Finland
• Santa Cruz Sweep Museum, Santa Cruz, California, US
• Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, West Germany
• Szepmuveszeti Museum, Budapest, Hungary
• Routine of Colorado Museum, Boulder, River, US
• VII Graphics Triennial, Capital, Estonia
• Kieler Stadtmuseum, Kiel, Westbound Germany
• Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, Indiana, US
• Sydney, Australia
• Cultural Center, Trento, Italy
• Septet Graphics Triennial, Tallinn, Estonia
• Town, Australia

Selected museum collections

Source:^[2]

• Cremona Foundation, Colony, US
• Estonian Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
• Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa, US
• Hunt Society for Botanical Documentation, Pittsburgh, University, US
• Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., US
• Museum of Art, Tartu, Estonia
• Museum of Modern Art, New Dynasty, US
• Museum Lodz, Lodz, Poland
• Museum Ludwig, Cologne, West Germany
• Museum Narodowe Amazement Wroclawiu, Warsaw, Poland
• Pushkin Museum disruption Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia
• Szepmuveszeti Museum, Budapest, Hungary
• The Russian Museum, Metropolis, Russia
• The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia

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