Exhibition The most wonderful gift of the nature a man
07.03.2014
Exhibition The most wonderful gift of the nature a man
Leo Kokle 90
This year, on March 3 we will celebrate the outstanding Latvian painters and portraitists Leo Kokles 90th birthday. Remembering the painter, the exhibition The most wonderful gift of the nature a man will open one day later on March 4 in the Riga Latvian Society White Hall. In the exhibition will be exhibited Leo Kokles works from the Latvian National Museum of Art, Ojārs Vācietis Museum funds and L.Kokle sisters Aina Ķirķe private collection. Special spirit in the exhibition will create the painters personal belongings: paintbrushes, photos, exhibition booklets, as well as newspaper clippings.
The painter himself has said: Painting is all my life. I paint everything; however the man has always been in the centre of my attention. By painting the most wonderful gift of the nature a man, I am trying to perceive his outer and spirits beauty, to reveal his truth. I have always tried to be true in the art. The painter should be searching all the time, because to live means to change.
L. Kokles contemporary painter Uldis Zemzaris remembers: Leo Kokle wasted his energy and time without saving it, as well as we waste ours
, Leo always was the person, who fought for deep and true qualities, he knew his greatness and opportunities, although many of his works had gained pathos only later. Leo Kokle has never painted only for the painting itself. His school has come together with the traditional understanding of forms that has brought him in the direction of portraits. It has maybe always been his inner democratic thought that has told him to as if address his works to those, who made his active environment.
Leo Kokle (03.03.1924 07.12.1964) was Latvian painter and portraitist, initiator of the new painters exhibitions tradition, a popular and loved artist and one of the most talented painters of his time.
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