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Vilen Künnapu
(1948)
Vilen Künnapu who is known as an architect and artist presents predominantly large-scale acrylic paintings that have been created with a characteristic Künnapu-esque stylization and provocative use of colours. These are expressive works with a unique geometrical and symbolistic system that have consciously emphasized naivism, like a sign of the artist’s genuine and pure energy, happily spreading across the paintings. As for shapes, Künnapu utilizes the same problem-solving and work ethics as with architecture – bold colour schemes and a stylish eclecticism of various architectural elements. Egyptian pillars, palladium friezes, gothic-roman window verticals and arches that become amazingly similar in Künnapu’s interpretation. The architect as well as the artist has halted their origin, creating a new space of thought free from temporal restrictions. To walk within the rooms of Künnapu’s bright-coloured houses is as if to walk along the roofs, corridors, roads and landscapes on his paintings.
Artworks
![Fortress](/content/teosed/20382_t.jpg)
![Küljel lamav akt](/content/teosed/17265_t.jpg)
![House in Tuvi Park](/content/teosed/20393_t.jpg)
![Pikk Jalg](/content/teosed/19720_t.jpg)
![Pikk Jalg](/content/teosed/19742_t.jpg)
![Pikk Jalg 2](/content/teosed/19729_t.jpg)
![Red Chimney](/content/teosed/19725_t.jpg)
![Reval](/content/teosed/20383_t.jpg)
![Nude With Green Hair](/content/teosed/17256_t.jpg)
![Pink Sky](/content/teosed/19716_t.jpg)
![Roofs of Santorini](/content/teosed/20384_t.jpg)
![Blue Nude I](/content/teosed/17259_t.jpg)
![Blue Nude II](/content/teosed/17260_t.jpg)
![Tallinn - The Capital of Happiness I](/content/teosed/20388_t.jpg)
![Tallinn - The Capital of Happiness II](/content/teosed/20389_t.jpg)
![Toompea 101](/content/teosed/20385_t.jpg)
![Street](/content/teosed/20390_t.jpg)
![Dream](/content/teosed/20392_t.jpg)
![Dream Tallinn](/content/teosed/20391_t.jpg)
![View From the Studio Balcony](/content/teosed/19718_t.jpg)
![Five Verticals in Paris](/content/teosed/20386_t.jpg)