Mare Vint (born Mare Mänd; 15 September 1942 – 10 May 2020) was an Estonian graphic artist. In her work, Vint mostly depicted an "ideal landscape".

Life

Vint was born in

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, where she graduated from 9th Secondary School in 1961. From 1962 to 1967, she studied at the Estonian SSR State Art Institute; she graduated as a glass artist. From 1967 to 1969, she worked as a High School art teacher in Tallinn, then as a freelance artist. She was a member of the

Estonian Artists' Union Estonian Artists Association (abbreviated EAA; et, Eesti Kunstnike Liit) is organization which connects artists in Estonia. EAA primary functions are "participating in cultural policymaking and sectoral development activities, protecting the int ...

since 1973. She worked in ink and pencil drawing, and mostly lithography since 1972. In Mare Vint's work of the second half of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s, a style emerged, characterized by the black-and-white contrast of the drawings, in which color is more conditional. She was awarded the

Order of the White Star The Order of the White Star ( et, Valgetähe teenetemärk; french: Ordre de l'Etoile Blanche) was instituted in 1936. The Order of the White Star is bestowed on Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic ...

IV class, in 2015.

References

1942 births 2020 deaths 20th-century Estonian women artists 21st-century Estonian women artists 20th-century Estonian painters 21st-century Estonian painters Modern painters Estonian women painters Estonian graphic artists Estonian Academy of Arts alumni Recipients of the Order of the White Star, 5th Class Artists from Tallinn {{Estonia-artist-stub