Keturi vėjai

The Keturi vėjai movement is considered to have begun with the publication of Kazys Binkis's and Salys Šemerys's expressionist texts in 1921.

On 16 February 1922, with the publication of the manifesto Keturių vėjų pranašas (The Prophet of the Four Winds), Binkis wrote on the movement's values.

[3] The theoretical basis of Keturi vėjai initially was futurism which arrived through Russia from the West, which was later was influenced by cubism, dadaism, surrealism, unanimism, and German expressionism.

[5] It preached the approach to literature as a collective workshop, promoted a laboratory creative method, and emphasized the word and sound as independent aesthetic values.

[2] Poet Adomas Jakštas opposed and criticized the movement, calling it "childish play".