Vytas Kapociunas

"In this age of desperate gestures and frantic pushing towards “the next step” when art appears to have lost its confidence, it seems almost strange to confront work as convincing as that of Vytas Kapociunas.

The modern artist faces problems whether he works in an abstract or figurative mode. He has to make his abstractions more than mere technical exercises of formal interest only, or else find a subject and style for his figurative piece. For many twentieth century artists, from Picasso down, the real struggle has been to find subject matter. We no longer have the social, political or religious systems widely shared by artists and public and providing common ground. Kapociunas’s love of animals, and his interest in man’s links with them, means that he wasted no time in the search for subjects. His academic expressionist style, as it might be described, is moving but never sentimental, soundly based but never predictable or dull. Through his art he truly extends our feeling and our understanding."

Professor David Dolan