| Abstract [eng] |
This paper analyses narrative in Petras Repšys fresco “Metų laikai“. Repšys (born 1940) is a famous Lithuanian graphic artist. Albinas Kentra (representative of Vilniaus university) suggested him to paint a fresco in Vilnius university, which was dedicated to university 400 years anniversary celebration. Repšys painted fresco almost ten years and finished it in 1985. Lithuania in these years was under Soviet Union control. Artists and intellectuals in different ways tried to strengthen Lithuanian culture and identity. For this reason Repšys in fresco “Metų laikai” depicts various Lithuanian traditions, rituals, rites and mythology storylines. In fresco “Metų laikai” are found around five hundred different figures and over one hundred scenes-images. Fresco is like a puzzle and even to Lithuanian ethnologists and mythologist is hard to solve. Therefore this paper not just analyses the narrative, but also reveals in fresco depicted Lithuanian traditions and mythology. Methods of analysis are two – Algirdas Julius Greimas narrative grammar and visual semiotics. These methods helps to reveal in fresco told visual narrative. In fresco is told story about nature and human life continuity. On top are depicted Gods, who represents beginning, and on the walls are depicted four seasons in which humans are working and celebrating. Also in fresco are depicted three existential human stages – birth, life and death, who interconnect with four seasons. Thus fresco “Metų laikai” makes closed, but internally related micro-universe. |
