Abstraction and Emotion in the artworks of the painter Ugnė Ieva Rima Stasiulaitytė-Dulevičienė creation

Abstraction and Emotion in the artworks of  the painter  Ugnė  Ieva Rima Stasiulaitytė- Dulevičienė creation.  Painter Ieva Ugnė Rima Stasiulaitytė-Dulevičienė lives and works in Kaunas, Lithuania. She is a painter and interior designer. The artist's talent for painting was most noticed in the artist's family by her grandmother, who took the author to an art club in Kaunas at the age of five.She also studied at the A. Martinaitis Art School. In 1997-2000, painter Ieva Ugnė Rima Stasiulaitytė-Dulevičienė  continued her studies at the Kaunas School of Applied Arts, where she majored in interior design and flower engraving. She completed her master's and doctoral studies in art education at the Lithuanian University of Education, which not everyone completes. The work of painter Ugnė Ieva Rima Stasiulaitytė-Dulevičienė is characterized by deep emotional and philosophical insights, questions of the human inner world and social life. All of the author's works are positive. Previously, the author painted more on architectural themes, currently the themes of nature and abstract flowers are relevant. In the international art magazine “Contrasts”, the painter Ugnė Ieva Rima Stasiulaitytė- Dulevičienė presents the following works: “Two”, “Living Life You Will Remember”, “Still Life”, “Dances”, “Storm”, “Woman in a Storm”, “Angry”, “Flowers”, “Flower”, one work from the cycle “Color Wheels”.The early work of the author Ieva Rima Ugnė Stasiulaitytė- Dulevičienė was dominated by more urban and architectural themes. One of the painter’s earlier works is “Kaunas Town Hall on a Black Background”. In this painting, the artist chooses the Town Hall as a symbol of Kaunas city, for which the various stories of the city revolving around it are important.In one of the author’s latest paintings from the cycle “Color Wheels”. This is a new collection of the painter’s paintings. In this cycle of paintings, the author delves into the colors and forms of life. The dynamics of colors are important. The painting uses wheel motifs and symbols. The essence of the painting's philosophy is when everything in life revolves in a circle. The painting is important for the dynamics of expressive colors, emotions revealed in the shapes of the circle.Summarizing the work of the painter Ieva Ugnė Rima Stasiulaitytė- Dulevičienė, it can be stated that pastel and bright colors dominate her work, sometimes dark color palette is encountered, architectural elements dominated in the author's early work, bright or pastel abstract work is often encountered. The author's work is dominated by dynamic and expressive color composition, colorful forms, existential and philosophical questions.1) Could you tell us how your creative path began, as a future interior designer and painter? I lived and grew up in Kaunas. When I was five years old, my grandparents took me to my first art group. 2) What fascinates you most about the creative processes of the interior designer profession? The opportunity to create is fascinating in both areas, both interior and painting. The most fascinating thing is innovation, the fact that on a canvas or a piece of paper you are an almighty God and it depends only on you what color combinations and shapes will appear in various canvas formats. 3) How does your interior project start with the idea or story of a color? Most often, the interior project I create starts with color and with a story. 4) What is your connection with painting at the moment and what art fields and forms are close to painting? In recent years, the connection with painting has been very close. Painting is like a refuge, refreshment for me. Support, rest, sometimes an emotional release. 5) What new painting project are you currently working on? I don't like to talk about new projects, it will be a new cycle of paintings, several new works have already been created. 6) How does the concept of the idea of your painting begin with an idea, vision or story? It usually begins with the Vision of the painting being created... 7) Do you have any ritual before starting to create a painting? I don’t have a specific ritual for creating a painting, because it starts differently every time. 8) What themes dominate your paintings? At the beginning of your work, architecture or fantastic or realistic flower beds with different names of paintings dominated. 9) For you as a painter, is the painting process like meditation or like a painting project? And yes, and yes, lately the creative process is usually like emotion, release, joy. Thank you for the interview, interview  by art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė