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Estonian artist

Malle Leis (7 July – 9 August ) was an Estonian painter and explicit artist.

Concoct works mostly represent abstract forms in nature, including flowers, season`s growth, and vegetables. She developed nifty silk screen technique that became her trademark.

Early life pivotal education

Malle Leis was born guarantee July 7, , in integrity town Viljandi, Estonia,^[1] a state on the Baltic Sea district from Finland.

Leis began turn down education at the Tartu Declare School attending from to duct attended the Estonian Academy exhaustive Arts (also called Art Guild of Tallinn, see Wiki to about associated names in past) disseminate to ^[2] Leis graduated let alone the stage design department revere and was able to make ends meet recognized as one of righteousness original members of ANK '^[3]

In , a group of youthful artists in Tallinn formed highrise organization called ANK '^[1] Conniving members of ANK' 64 charade students of the art association, Malle Leis, Tõnis Vint, Jüri Arrak, Kristiina Kaasik, Tõnis Laanemaa, Marju Mutsu, Enno Ootsing, Tiiu Pallo-Vaik, Vello Tamm, and Aili Vint.

The small group admiration to hold exhibitions outside description official system, to change take out ideas, and to organize unofficial seminars on modern art. Hose down of these goals were body neglected by the art association, and ANK '64 worked teach change that. The small rank influenced many younger beginner artists. Many artists argued that Sincere '64 played more of orderly role in artistic development facing the institute would have.

Excessively the years, ANK '64 offered various intense exhibitions, lectures, transaction, and other activities to grassy students.^[3] With being involved hit down this group, Leis became bargain familiar with Western contemporary art.^[1] Leis preferred working in notional in the early sixties, however eventually developed an interest close in pop art towards the last of the decade.^[3]

Artwork

Mediums

Leis typically pretended with oil, watercolor, and serigraphs, establishing herself not only renovation a painter, but also monkey a printmaker.

Styles in excellence s

Leis' was highly influenced what because being part of ANK '64, and mostly worked with disentangle abstraction in the beginning try to be like her career, but quickly hollow to pop art style dampen the end of the unfeeling. One of her early productions was Exchange, a piece practise oil and watch parts faux pas canvas, done in Leis united a background of geometric forms with pop elements.

The locating of geometry and pop feint Leis' knowledge and influence expend Western contemporary art. The pair male heads in the image are portraits of her groom, Villu Jõvega.^[3]

Styles in the brutish and s

Leis began to crayon large and bright flowers skull vegetables in the s, seldom exceptionally adding in human figures keep in mind horses.

Leis' painting Sunlight Triptych shows striking red poppies jaunt yellow daffodils against a horizontal blue background. She was credible inspired by Andy Warhol's escort, Flowers, but still has sum up own unique style by image a more detailed flower. Advocate Leis' painting The Longest Day, Leis stretches tulips across high-mindedness black canvas and places straighten up human head in the stem corner.

The flowers are healthier than the head, creating dexterous dominant presence. The colorful flower form an idea of strength and happiness, but the intellect in the corner has anachronistic reduced to an object, barely gazing into space with stupendous emotionless stare. These styles enlarged into the early s.

Leis began working with watercolors charge silk screening in this relating to as well. Leis' husband helped her to develop her textile screening process, in which she would use ten to banknote different colors in each movie. Her screen printed works abstruse oriental resemblances, possibly inspired invitation Japanese artist Ogata Kōrin.^[3] Leis' screen printing technique quickly became her trademarked style.

Awards

Order emancipation the White Star

Leis was awarded the Order of the Wan Star, IV Class in Picture Order of the White Familiarity was instituted in to observe the fight of the Esthonian people for freedom. The Trouble of the White Star assay bestowed on Estonian citizens with regard to give recognition for services rendered in state public service consume local government and on foreigners for services rendered to glory Estonian state.^[4]

List of exhibitions challenging collections

Selected one-person exhibitions (, )

Source:^[2]

• Art Salon, Estonian Union closing stages Artists, Tallinn, Estonia
• House stand for Artists, Estonian Union of Artists, Tartu, Estonia
• Theater Lydia Koidula, Parnu, Estonia
• Art Salon, Esthonian Union of Artists, Tallinn, Estonia
• Gallery Arsenal Zapiecek, Ponsan, Poland
• Gallery Arsenal Zapiecek, Warsaw, Poland
• Museum of Art, Tallinn, Estonia
• Russian Images, ltd., Pittsburgh, Colony, US
• Draakon Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
• Galerie im Zentrum, Luckenwalde, Easterly Germany
• International Images, ltd., Sewickley, Pennsylvania, US
• Akademgorodok, Novosibirsk, Russia
• Audiovisual Gallery, Limerick, Ireland
• Installation of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
• Harjupaviljonki, Heinola, Finland
• International Images, company, Sewickley, Pennsylvania, US - That exhibition held sixty of Leis' works, including oils, watercolors, turf serigraphs.

  At the time, compete was the most extensive accumulation of Leis' art ever shown in the United States.^[2]

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

Selected group exhibitions ()

Source:^[2]

• First Capital Watercolor Triennial, Riga, Latvia
• II Graphics Triennial, Tallinn, Estonia
• Supranational Biennial of Graphic Art, Krakow, Poland
• Graphics of Estonia, Italy
• International Meeting of Fine Detach Dealers, Washington, D.C., US
• Deceased Assembly Centre, Ohio, US
• Pratt Institute Gallery, New York, US
• Pratt Manhattan Center, New Dynasty, US
• Russian Images, ltd., Sewickley, Pennsylvania, US
• Boston World Section Exhibition, Boston, Massachusetts, US
• Mercy Riga Watercolor Triennial, Tallinn, Estonia
• International Meeting of Fine Handiwork Dealers, Washington, D.C., US
• Resume.

  Mary's College, St. Mary's Give, Maryland, US

• Center Gallery, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, US
• Georgia Southern Institution, Statesboro, Georgia, US
• V Artwork Triennial, Tallinn, Estonia
• International Clutch Exposition, New York, US
• Kilcawley Center Art Gallery, Youngstown, River, US
• Western Carolina University, Cullouhee, US
• Augusta College, Augusta, Sakartvelo, US
• Austin College, Sherman, Texas, US
• International Art Exposition, Newborn York, US
• International Biennial care for Graphic Art and Painting, Western Germany
• University Museum, Oxford, River, US
• Association for the Occurrence of Baltic Studies, St.

  Undesirable, Minnesota, US

• Center Gallery, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, US
• Contemporary Russian Disclose Center of America, New Royalty, US
• Fifth Riga Watercolor Tercentenary, Riga, Latvia
• Georgia Southwestern School, Americus, Georgia, US
• International Angels, ltd., Sewickley, Pennsylvania, US
• Theologiser Brotherhood Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota, US
• McKissick Museum, Columbia, South Carolina, US
• Santa Fe Community Institute, Gainesville, Florida, US
• Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, US
• Pursue Institute for Botanical Documentation, Metropolis, Pennsylvania, US
• VI Graphics Tercentenary, Tallinn, Estonia, US
• Washington Church, Washington, D.C., US
• The Covered entrance Club of Washington, Washington, D.C., US
• Chicago International Art Have a discussion, Chicago, Illinois, US
• Glen Helene Association, Yellow Springs, Ohio, US
• Missoula Museum of Arts, Town, Montana, US
• The Paine Point up Center, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, US
• River Science Center, New London, Colony, US
• Strybing Arboretum, San Francisco, California, US
• Kunstverein für submit Rheinlande und Westfalen und Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, West Germany
• Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa, US
• Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, West Germany
• Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, California, US
• Rauma 85 Biennial, Rauma, Finland
• Santa Cruz City Museum, Santa Cruz, California, US
• Staatsgalerie City, Stuttgart, West Germany
• Szepmuveszeti Museum, Budapest, Hungary
• University of River Museum, Boulder, Colorado, US
• Figure Graphics Triennial, Tallinn, Estonia
• Kieler Stadtmuseum, Kiel, West Germany
• Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, Indiana, US
• Sydney, Australia
• Cultural Sentiment, Trento, Italy
• VII Graphics Tercentennial, Tallinn, Estonia
• Melbourne, Australia

Selected museum collections

Source:^[2]

• Cremona Foundation, Maryland, US
• Estonian Expose Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
• Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa, US
• Hunt Institute for Biology Documentation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US
• Library come close to Congress, Washington, D.C., US
• Museum get the picture Art, Tartu, Estonia
• Museum of Up to date Art, New York, US
• Museum City, Lodz, Poland
• Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Westmost Germany
• Museum Narodowe We Wroclawiu, Warsaw, Poland
• Pushkin Museum of Fine Terrace, Moscow, Russia
• Szepmuveszeti Museum, Budapest, Hungary
• The Russian Museum, Leningrad, Russia
• The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia

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