The symbolic, relative language of Kalinauskas’ portraits in some way reminds the language of icon <…>. The symbolic language both in icon and in Kalinauskas’ works is not an end in itself <…>, but it is just a means, an artistic language which allows the artist to look inside a man several existential layers “deeper” than his momentary psychic status.
Byzantine icon (and later east-slavic icon) depicts man in the way he is discovered in eternity: in plenitude of his godsent gifts. Contrariwise, Kalinauskas depicts man “now and here”, just the way man exists in this world: with all aspiration for the celestial spheres and at the same time being bound with the terrestrial realia. And in this sense his works are dramatic which was always avoided by Byzantine icon tradition.
Extract from catalogue „Ach!“. Text by Alisa Lozhkina, art critic, editor-in-chief, ART UKRAINE
Barbara's Portrait. 60 x 80 cm, oil, canvas. 2010 
Matush's Portrait. 60 x 80 cm, oil, canvas. 2009 
Roman's Portrait. 60 x 80 cm, oil, canvas. 2011 
Roman's Portrait. 60 x 80 cm, oil, canvas. 2009 
Rado's Portrait. 60 x 80 cm, oil, canvas. 2010 
Martin's Portrait. 60 x 80 cm, oil, canvas. 2010 
Selfportrait. 60x70 cm. Oil, canvas. 2009 
Just Olia. 70 x 90 cm, oil, canvas. 1999 
Ah, Alexander Nikolaevich. 54 x 65 cm, oil, canvas. 1999 
Portrait of Essence. 60 x 70 cm, oil, canvas. 
Pani Virginia. 50 x 60 cm, oil, canvas. 1999 
The Apostle. 50 x 60 cm, oil, canvas. 1999 
Portrait of Eva. 80 x 60 cm, oil, canvas. 1999 
Light shaped me out of Darkness. 56 x 74 cm, oil, canvas. 2000 
Portrait of Essence. 60 x 70 cm, oil, canvas. 
Woman's Portrait. 50 x 60 cm, oil, canvas. 1999 
The Master admiring the Cup. 50 c 65 cm, oil, canvas. 1998 
The Enchanting Woman. 70 x 100 cm, oil, canvas. 1999 
The Foreruner. 50 x 60 cm, oil, canvas. 1999 
Ah, Sigute. 50 x 60 cm, oil, canvas. 1999