Exhibition
In the beginning, there was a line. Drawings from the 18th–21st centuries from the collections of the Lithuanian National Museum of Art
About this event
The line was the first human gesture with which one attempted to perceive and create the world. It was the drawing that became the connection between the gaze, thought, and the movement of the hand. This exhibition presents the journey of drawing – from academic discipline to free, conceptual thinking, from meticulous observation to the expression of inner impulse.
In eight halls, the tradition of Lithuanian drawing and its changes over time are concisely unfolded. The exhibition begins with examples of academic drawing from the art departments of Vilnius University and continues through the Vilnius Drawing School and the interwar modernism period to works by artists of the second half of the 20th century and contemporary artists. Five thematic sections of the exhibition – "Patience and Inspiration," "Discoveries in Everyday Life," "Strokes of Personality," "Contours of Ideas," and "Uncharted Boundaries" – aim not only to review the history of drawing but also to actualize its significance and reveal a wide spectrum of possibilities.
The exhibition invites you to look at drawing as a universal form of artistic expression, the result of a living creative process.
