Silvia Leitu

Silvia Leitu was one of these artists who was able to acquire a superb art education in Estonia before escaping - Leitu studied under the supervision of Nikolai Triik in Pallas -, but her best creative years had to start already at living abroad. Therefore the Leitu creation is not well known in Estonia, but as living as an Estonian in Europe she was able to connect herself with wide-scale art processes. Leitu's water-colour summarizes charmingly the situation of a person, having lived directly after the World War II in the Western Europe. A tea glass that is forgotten for a moment on a table corner and a homy tea-pot, being partially seen in the picture, reflect the daily routine of the petty bourgeois, but at the same time an opened newspaper informs of a new crisis in Syria, the former French colony. In addition to the era-true document this reflects the hesitation of the post-colonial European, of which the local Estonians evidently had no idea of: the wish to restore the peaceful pre-war easy-listening mood is disturbed by colonial heritage - related agitated news from the Middle East.