Attributing and classifying of personalities   Invitation Your input to Culture of Lithuania is welcomed  Some problems of defining personalities or attributing them to certain wellknown 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 Worldwide 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 th decade of the th 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 dont 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 Ramnas 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     stylefontsizept fontfamilyverdana border cellspacing cellpadding aligncenter  aligncenter  period and generation   aligncenter  artists writers philosophers etc  aligncenter  in a context of Lithuania  aligncenter  in an European context    alignleft  The National Renaissance period the younger generation approx      alignleft  painter and composer  iurlionis painter Kazys imonis poet and philosopher Vilius Storastas  Vydnas dramatist Sofija Kymantait  iurlionien poets Adomas Jaktas Motiejus Gustaitis Liudas Gira composer Stasys imkus philosopher Ramnas Bytautas   alignleft  reformers and innovators of Lithuanian culture  alignleft  Representatives of Lithuanian culture almost unknown before them     alignleft The period between WWI and WWII and postwar years    alignleft  poets V Mykolaitis  Putinas Kazys Binkis writer Ignas einius  Jurknas artists all ars group  philosopher Juozas Girnius   alignleft  Modernists introducing new Western ideas into Lithuanian cultural life   alignleft  Central European modernism   Note Lists of personalities isnt complete here nor its made precisely by prominence     Jul  UTC