Eduard Kutsar

Eduard Kutsar is an artist, who has received an extraordinarily thorough art-related education, whose teachers at “Pallas” were among others Konrad Mägi and Eduard Wiiralt, Ado Vabbe and Jaan Grünberg, Nikolai Triik and Hando Mugasto. Konrad’s interests in art were extremely deep, stretching from painting through graphical art to sculpture. Still we know quite little of his creation, as devastation in the year 1944 also destroyed the majority of Kutsar’s earlier works. During the years 1950-1958 was Kutsar similarily to Aleksander Vardi forced to remain silent.
“Purjekad merel” is a rare example of the early creation of the artist, of which until now were mainly known expressionist works. Here Kutsar demonstrates a skilful approach to colour and light, melting carefully but consistently the yachts in the harbour into the morning mist. We can not but notice the painting year of the work, which makes us think of a meaning of a ready-to-sail yacht in the year 1941. So Kutsar joins in a work, which is at a first glance so peaceful and sweet, from one side the brilliant skill to toy with the colours of the rainy sky, but from another hand the painting tells us about the historical reality, going and staying, about hoping.