Sonata of the Sea
A painting sequence like symphonic movements.
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A singular museum of more than three thousand devil figures from Lithuanian and world folklore, collected by the painter Antanas Žmuidzinavičius — strange, entertaining and family-friendly, two minutes' walk away.
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A museum for one man who changed a nation's art: Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875-1911) was composer and painter at once, and died at thirty-six leaving some three hundred paintings and two hundred musical works — and his painting ran ahead of its time: abstract, symbolist canvases he called sonatas and fugues by musical name, painted in sequences like the movements of a symphony. The national museum in Kaunas holds almost his complete output, displayed in darkened rooms under low light to protect the fragile colours — you walk between the Sonata of the Sea and the Sonata of the Stars while his music plays, which is the only way to grasp the work: sound and image together. The same building holds wings of Lithuanian, folk and European art, and the quarter around it is Kaunas's interwar modernism — the architecture that put the city on the UNESCO list in 2023.
A painting sequence like symphonic movements.
The Art Deco quarter around it — UNESCO 2023.
V. Putvinskio g. 55, Kaunas