Janis Tidemanis (1897-1964) was born in Ventspils, Latvia. Tidemanis oil paintings are famous for their still life theme of flowers. His oil paintings are popular in the world of contemporary art.
As a shipmate's hand, he reached America where he attended art schools in New York and Cleveland. Tidemanis had professional art education at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp and the Higher Institute for Arts.
Tidemanis was one of the new and rare Modernists among Latvian painters of the 1930's. Janis Tidemanis is undoubtedly the most impressive painter of the Modernist period.
His paintings bear a relationship to Belgian Expressionism, although Tidemanis maintains interest in the old masters. The style of his paintings is characterized by expressive and temperamental brush-stroke.
Tidemanis uses effective contrasts of light and shade and dark backgrounds, color being the main role in the paintings. Tidemanis was one of the first artists who introduced the theme of a big city in his paintings.
Tidemanis paintings include scenes of harbors, market places, boulevards, carnivals, crowds in the streets, and sports activities. City spaces, figural compositions, portraits and still life of flowers are among his favorite genres. Tidemanis had a preference to oil and large etchings.
Below are titles of some oil paintings by Tidemanis done in the 1930's:
1. A Girl in a Folk Dress - Oil on cardboard
2. Harbour - Oil on canvas
3. A Game of Cards. Two Trumps - Oil on canvas
4. Carnival - Oil on canvas
5. Harbour. A Steamer in America - Oil on canvas.
6. Hanele - Oil on canvas.
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