| Abstrakt: |
In the early twentieth century, a number of Latvian women artists, among them Milda Grīnfelde, Otīlija Leščinska, and Lūcija Kuršinska, received training from European and Russian modernist artists and showed their artworks in exhibitions of modern art. The growth of Latvian modern art, however, is connected with the late 1910s and 1920s; its main force was the Riga Artists' Group, an association of young, mostly Russian educated painters and sculptors, who had connections to the European modernist trends. The only two female artists in this group--sculptress Marta Liepiņa-Skulme and painter Aleksandra Beļcova--played significant roles in the development of modernism in Latvia and participated in major local and some international arts exhibitions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
