Ramunė Aldona Kmieliauskaitė (22 June 1960 in

Vilnius Vilnius ( , ; see also other names) is the capital and largest city of Lithuania, with a population of 592,389 (according to the state register) or 625,107 (according to the municipality of Vilnius). The population of Vilnius's functional urb ...

– 13 May 2020 in

) was a

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n graphic artist and watercolor painter. In 1984 she graduated from

Vilnius Academy of Art The Vilnius Academy of Arts ( lt, Vilniaus dailės akademija, previously ''State Art Institute of Lithuania'') in Vilnius, Lithuania, grants a variety of degrees in the arts. History The Academy traces its roots back to the creation of the Arc ...

and began appearing in exhibitions. Her work was influenced by ancient Chinese and Japanese art, by

impressionist Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage ...

and

post-impressionist Post-Impressionism (also spelled Postimpressionism) was a predominantly French art movement that developed roughly between 1886 and 1905, from the last Impressionist exhibition to the birth of Fauvism. Post-Impressionism emerged as a reaction ag ...

movements. Her works combine cold and warm colors, free composition, and floral motifs.

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* * Lithuanian painters 1960 births 2020 deaths Artists from Vilnius Vilnius Academy of Arts alumni 20th-century Lithuanian women artists 21st-century Lithuanian women artists {{Lithuania-painter-stub

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