Printmaking in the Baltics April 21, 2007

'Printmaking in Soviet Estonia' features the long tradition of printmaking in the Baltic republics of Lithuania, Latvia, and especially Estonia. Under Soviet rule, authorities mainly concentrated on censoring two art forms to ensure that creative work adhered to dictated norms: painting and the written novel. The graphic print, however, with its low visibility to censors, gave expression to a vast array of nonconformist subjects drawn from the distinctive cultures of the Baltics. Artists engaged Western Pop, Minimalism and Conceptual Art on an international level unique to the Baltics.