Attributing and classifying of personalities Invitation Your input to Culture of Lithuania is welcomed Some problems of defining personalities or attributing them to certain well known ideological systems may raise here I propose a quite liberal variant of it where definition may not be connected with one certain word Necessity however to follow certain classifying remains My initial ideas on this branch the ones concerning period of Lithuanian national Renaissance period Some artists writers or other cultural workers of this period are often described as modernists This definition is not false but some more concrete things should be added some specifics of Lithuania We should distinguish leading ideas of the Nat Renaissance from later modernism which is more known for us Cultural aspirations of the later Nat Ren may be defined as modernism in a cultural context of Lithuania But they accented also expression of Lithuanian cultural heritage and their expression may be seen as something simply typically Lithuanian I mean that such authors in as iurlionis is seen as modernist in Lithuanian context but it also and even more is a representative of Lithuanian culture when in European or World wide context A parallel example may be taken from literature of India Poet Tagore well known Nobel price winner is known for us as a representative of culture of India Making India more understandable and closer for western people is concerned as main his input to Western culture But in his own country he was seen as a modernist too who was changing traditional cultural forms especially stagnated ones This way also Lithuanian cultural leaders of the N Ren could be seen as modernists which were broadening cultural forms and changing stagnated ones in Lithuanian context They also can be seen as modernists in a wider context but more for acquainting Western people with Lithuanian culture than for their direct input into Western culture iurlionis is the best example here In other way the later Lithuanian modernists they depended mostly to later generation approximately from 4th decade of the 20th century concerned themselves part of Western modernistic movement and their main purpose looking generally was to introduce Western European ideas into Lithuanian cultural life see the table below We see two different movements and two different world outlooks here The problem is that both movements collaborated especially their political wings did and interchange of ideas between them is well seen So many researchers don t pay attention to this difference Especially in the Soviet period when national ideas were officially forbidden mixture in description of these movements was allowed E g philosopher Ram nas Bytautas who clearly depends to the first generation is often described as liberal And it may be understood in a sense of the second generation as idea of liberalism period and generation artists writers philosophers etc in a context of Lithuania in an European context The National Renaissance period the younger generation approx 1905 1930 painter and composer iurlionis painter Kazys imonis poet and philosopher Vilius Storastas Vyd nas dramatist Sofija Kymantait iurlionien poets Adomas Jak tas Motiejus Gustaitis Liudas Gira composer Stasys imkus philosopher Ram nas Bytautas reformers and innovators of Lithuanian culture Representatives of Lithuanian culture almost unknown before them The period between WWI and WWII and post war years poets V Mykolaitis Putinas Kazys Binkis writer Ignas einius Jurk nas artists all ars group philosopher Juozas Girnius Modernists introducing new Western ideas into Lithuanian cultural life Central European modernism Note Lists of personalities isn t complete here nor it s made precisely by prominence 07 51 2004 Jul 16 UTC