Līga Purmale (born 4 October 1948 in

Dundaga Dundaga ( liv, Dūoņig) is a village in Talsi Municipality in the Courland region of Latvia. From 2009 until 2021, the village served as the administrative centre of the former Dundaga Municipality. Dundaga is known for its castle, construc ...

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) is a Latvian

painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

. At a young age she moved to

Riga Riga (; lv, Rīga , liv, Rīgõ) is the capital and largest city of Latvia and is home to 605,802 inhabitants which is a third of Latvia's population. The city lies on the Gulf of Riga at the mouth of the Daugava river where it meets the Ba ...

from the Latvian countryside to study painting, first at the Jānis Rozentāls Art High School and then at the Latvian Academy of Art. In the 1970s she and

Miervaldis Polis Miervaldis Polis (born 23 July 1948, Riga, Latvia) is a Latvian painter and performance artist. In the early 1970s, he and Līga Purmale, his wife at the time, started a new trend of photorealism in Latvian painting. In the early 1980s, he ...

, who was her husband at the time, started a new trend of

photorealism Photorealism is a genre of art that encompasses painting, drawing and other graphic media, in which an artist studies a photograph and then attempts to reproduce the image as realistically as possible in another medium. Although the term can be ...

in Latvian painting. She currently lives and works in

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Two Artists Who Broke All the Rules: Liga Purmale and Miervaldis Polis
1948 births Living people 20th-century Latvian painters 21st-century Latvian painters 20th-century Latvian women artists 21st-century Latvian women artists People from Dundaga Municipality Contemporary painters Latvian women painters {{Latvia-painter-stub