Arbit blatas biography of mahatma gandhi
A young girl comes of age in a dysfunctional family of nonconformist nomads with a mother who's an eccentric artist and an alcoholic father who would stir.
Though born and raised in Lithuania, he emigrated to Paris to escape Soviet occupation during World War 2 — this is where both his art and his career were.!
Arbit Blatas
Lithuanian–Jewish artist and sculptor
Arbit Blatas (November 19, 1908 – April 27, 1999), born Nicolai Arbitblatas, was an artist and sculptor of Lithuanian–Jewish descent.[1]
Early life and career as an artist
Born in Kaunas on 19 November 1908, Arbit Blatas was a precocious talent who began exhibiting in his native country at the age of 15.
He fled the communist revolution to Germany in 1921, where he studied in Berlin, Munich, and Dresden.[2] He left for Paris and, at the age of 21, became the youngest member of the School of Paris. When Blatas was 24, the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris first acquired some of his paintings; he had already become a colleague and friend of many of the great figures of the Paris art world, such as Vlaminck, Soutine, Picasso, Utrillo, Braque, Zadkine, Léger, and Derain.[3] He was to paint and sculpt them all, as well as Bonnard, Vuillard, Matisse, Dufy, van Dongen, Cocteau, Marquet, and