Pranas Lap\u0117 rationalises his choice of creative style by saying: \u201cWhile painting I feel like Columbus, who sailed for India, but discovered America\u201d. The artist never used sketches, he painted freehand. In his later years, P. Lap\u0117 mastered another painting style, which later became his signature style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nowadays the art community knows Pranas Lap\u0117 as a representative of abstract expressionism. \u201cIn the artist\u2019s paintings, real life objects become artifacts of his own imagination\u201d, says Ram\u016bnas \u010ci\u010delis in regard to the artist\u2019s creations. It seems that the world has recognised the value of P. Lap\u0117 works\u2026<\/p>\n
While he spent his youth in native Klaip\u0117da, P. Lap\u0117 began his creative career in Kaunas. In 1944, when the soviet reoccupation was approching, he emigrated to the West. Later he continued his studies and worked in Stockholm. In Sweden he created a few large-scale wall paintings for public spaces. Since 1949 he lived in The United States of America. P. Lap\u0117 worked in such New York publishing houses as \u201cDonbleday\u201c, \u201cScribners\u201c and \u201cRandom House\u201d. He illustrated more than 300 Swedish, American and Lithuanian book covers.<\/p>\n
Lap\u0117 began painting full time in 1978. After leaving his job as an educator he relocated to Chamberlain in the state of Maine. The artist displayed his works in several art exhibitions in Long Island, Chicago, Brooklyn and Boston. He also held some art exhibitions with other Lithuanian exodists.<\/p>\n
The painter never stopped longing for Lithuania \u2013 he returned to his homeland in 1998, after the country regained its independence. P. Lap\u0117 passed away in 2010. Following the artist\u2019s request, he was laid to rest alongside his family in Veivir\u017e\u0117nai, near Klaip\u0117da.<\/p>\n\n\n\n