Džemma Skulme

Džemma Skulme (1925)

The role that Džemma Skulme as a personality played in the development of Latvian art and the public life of the second half of the 20th century cannot be overestimated. She comes from an outstanding family of artists, who developed Latvian classic modernism.
Džemma Skulme in her allegorical depictions of the past and the present talks about her own and her nation's origins, fate and continuity. Monumentality and large-scaledness in form and contents are typical of her work. From spectacular girls in Latvian folk-costumes to paraphrases of Velazquez. From Greek Cariatides to scare-crows. From realism to an increasingly greater conditionality in her images and painting.