The White Apple Tree

Valentinas Antanavičius Arbit Blatas (Neemija Arbitblatas).aspx) Vincas Dilka Vladas Eidukevičius Adomas Galdikas Jonas Gasiūnas Vincentas Gečas Antanas Gudaitis Ksenija Jaroševaitė Vytautas Kazimieras Jonynas Vytautas Kairiūkštis Gediminas Karalius Vincas Kisarauskas Juozas Mikėnas Deimantas Narkevičius Mindaugas Navakas Viktoras Petravičius Eglė Rakauskaitė Ferdynand Ruszczyc Antanas Samuolis Šarūnas Sauka Augustinas Savickas Ludomir Sleńdziński Antanas Sutkus Arvydas Šaltenis Jonas Švažas Algimantas Švėgžda Gintautas Trimakas Sofija Veiverytė Justinas Vienožinskis Juozas Zikaras Kazimiera Zimblytė Antanas Žmuidzinavičius The White Apple Tree by the Expressionist painter Antanas Samuolis occupies a special place in the history of Lithuanian art, as one of the most powerful pieces in the landscape genre. Presented at the first exhibition of the Ars group in 1932, it showed the talent of this young but mature artist. This painting evokes the unadorned everyday life of the suburbs. But the squalid scene that emerges is not without poetry: there is a mood of solitude and melancholy in it. The landscape is painted from life. The apple tree probably grew in the painter's family's garden in Kaunas. This adds an autobiographical aspect, hinting at the hard life of the artist, who suffered from material shortages and poor health.