He was born in 1970 in Vilnius, Lithuania. In the years 1992-1997 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and graduated in painting. He has been a member of the Association of Lithuanian Painters since 2002.
His works were shown at his individual exhibitions: Frozen Time (Czas utrwalony) organized in Vilnius by the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and The Walk Through Vilnius (Spacer po Wilnie) in the House of Polish Culture in Vilnius, in 2004.
He participated in many group exhibitions, e.g. in Warsaw, Vilnius, Kaliningrad, Toruń.
Though he is a Lithuanian artist, Poland with its artistic heritage became Robert Bluj’s the other artistic homeland. It was Warsaw where he studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts and it is Poland where he chooses to paint in the open-air.contact details:
ROBERT BLUJ
Braškių str.,
46-30 Vilnius, Lithuania
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An essential subject for his painting is the nude. Small, theatrical posed women are located in the quasi-abstractive space but due to a strong contrast they are eliminated. The painter undresses the women as their nakedness is the source of the beauty as well as the psychological truth.
The connection of these two issues - the beauty and the truth - lets him stress the tension on his paintings. Human beeing is the essential and endless inspiration; the interior world, sensitiveness of subconsciousness. Symbolic and metaphysical relationship of forms and colorations, their deepness reveals most subtle and mysterious feelings and impressions.
The basic fulcrum for Robert Bluj's painting are both space and figure. The artist plays with them changing relations between figure and space, colors and proportions. Cold, reserved, space and motionless figure, no emotions, no movements, no communication. People, like fossils, stiffen in the time and space and only in some rare cases next to the lonely figure, as an additional evidence of the symbolism of the figure, appears an attribute. The anatomical precision of a figure stresses their focuses on their defenselessness - a naked woman or a man are getting stiffened in the presence of the audience. Pale and helpless, undressed for the first time, seem to be found in a courtroom. [...]
Saulė Mažeikaitė on Robert Bluj’s painting
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