KRASLAVA IN THE PAINTINGS OF THE ARTIST VALENTINS ZLIDNIS.

The aim of the article is deeply investigate the creation of Kraslava's artist, painter Valentins Zlidnis (1939-2010), to get familiar with his view on the landscapes of Kraslava and promote the identification of the artist's creative action as a material and non-material cultural value for the society. Valentins Zlidnis celebrated the 80th anniversary on February 22, 2019. The artist spent most of his life after the graduation of the Latvian National Institute of Physical Culture in Kraslava, where he was actively working as a naihen painter, until he learned painting skills for years by his own. Over time, Valentins Zlidnis fell in love with the quiet streets and architecture of Kraslava and depicted it in his artworks. The biography and creative activities of the artist of Kraslava - the naivist Valentins Zlidnis - were examined in depth in the local and national cultural area. His paintings were analyzed by the theme, technique, composition, visual means of expression, artist's handwriting. In the frames or this research in a chronological context were compared the landscapes of the town of Kraslava painted during the artist's life with the same places in modern Kraslava, finding them and capturing them in photographs. Conclusions were made on the development of the personality and individual art language of the artist Valentins Zlidinis, and on his contribution to the process of recording and preserving the historical and cultural facts of Kraslava, while watching and positioning it from the perspective of the artist, i.e. documenting it in artistic forms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]