The paintings of the painter Zita Tarasevičienė between feeling and color
04/07/2025 The paintings of the painter Zita Tarasevičienė between feeling and color The painter Zita Virginija Jusevičiūtė-Tarasevičienė lives and creates in Kaunas, Lithuania. Zita Virginija Jusevičiūtė-Tarasevičienė is an internationa recognized Lithuanian painter who has been working for 30 years. Currently, the author organizes anniversary personal exhibitions in Lithuania, has participated in a number of international exhibitions presenting Lithuanian art abroad: in France, Italy, Turkey, Latvia, Germany, South Korea, Canada, Poland, Ireland, and actively participates in plein airs with different groups of artists.The artist early creative activity dates back to 2002-2014. Since 2001, the painter Zita Tarasevičienė has been organizing exhibitions in major Lithuanian cities, of which she has already organized over 100: in Vilnius, Kaunas, Kėdainiai, Panevėžys. Since 2019, she has been granted the status of an Art Creator.Painter Zita Jusevičiūtė-Tarasevičienė collaborates with the Public international Institution “Gabrielegallery”. The painter’s work has been written about by a.a. Professor Algis Uždavinys, art critic Neringa Mikol, and Professor Remigijus Venckus. The author’s creative style is diverse, dominating between abstraction and figurative art, and sometimes motifs of realistic art are encountered. In her continuous and separate cycles of work, the author often experiments with colors, textures, and abstract forms. A variety of techniques and themes is important in the author’s work. The author creates her works using oil, acrylic paints, and mixed media. Abstract stylistics and expressive colors dominate the author’s work, and figurative motifs sometimes intervene. The paintings of painter Zita Tarasevičienė are often identified and compared with abstract landscapes. Existential and philosophical questions are important in almost every painting. The author does not shy away from visual language motifs in her frequent works. Painter Zita Virginija Jusevičiūtė - Tarasevičienė does not shy away from the emotional charge of colors and forms, internal states and experiences are important. The author's work is dominated not only by abstract stylistics, but also by the influence of expressionism and post-impressionism styles. The following painting cycles are the most important and memorable, some of which have been remembered by foreign curators: “Life is full of chaos” This painting cycle is interwoven with intense lines, musical and mediatizing strokes. “Ode to Autumn” This painting cycle is dominated by dynamic colors, a palette of autumn colors, expressive strokes and forms. The painting cycle “Black Silver” is a cycle of paintings that demonstrates a subtle play, a variety of gray tones and different expressive strokes.In the international art magazine “Contrasts”, painter Zita Virginija Jusevičiūtė-Tarasevičienė presents several paintings from the cycle “Black Silver”. This is one of the painter’s latest cycles and explores the themes of transience, memory, fragility, light, and shadows. In this cycle, black symbolizes the unknown, emptiness, depth, and a certain boundary between disappearance and silence. In this cycle, silver symbolizes memories, light, fragmentation, and aesthetic shades in relation to the context of time. This cycle is often associated with motifs of fragile minimalist nature. Light and shadows play an important role in the artistic composition. Meanwhile, the paintings transport the viewer between light and darkness.In this magazine, painter Zita Virginija Jusevičiūtė-Tarasevičienė presents several paintings from the cycle “Emotion”. Through abstract expressive form and expressive colors, the author expresses the emotions of the inner world: it is an emotion of joy, an emotion of peace, it can even be an emotion of sadness, each color in the painting interprets a different emotion in its own way. The cycle of paintings by the painter Zita Tarasevičienė “Survive” is associated with the inner state of man, the spiritual struggle for survival. Sometimes the depiction of the Lithuanian landscape with abstracted motifs is important. This article is associated with the upcoming 30th anniversary of the painter’s work. The work of the painter Zita Virginija Jusevičiūtė-Tarasevičienė is dynamic, abstract and expressive. The painter’s work dominates between colors and feelings. The diversity of themes, techniques and styles is extremely important in the author’s work. Art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė
