Vija Celmins (pronounced VEE-ya SELL-muns; Latvian: Vija Celmiņa, pronounced TSEL-meen-ya) is a Latvian American visual artist best known for photo-realistic paintings and drawings of natural environments and phenomena such as the ocean, spider webs, star fields, and rocks. Her earlier work included pop sculptures and monochromatic representational paintings. Based in New York City, she has been the subject of over forty solo exhibitions since 1965, and major retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London and the Centre Pompidou, Paris.
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Some of their strengths
Vija Celmins has many admirable traits.
Based on spiritual traditions from around the world, they are someone who can be described as Passionate, Altruistic, Intense, Energetic, Intelligent, Intuitive, and Feeling.
Intense and Passionate
According to Mysticism’s Astrology tradition, Vija Celmins is someone who is an intense, passionate, and intuitive person who is fiercely independent, authentic and direct when engaging with others. A person who sees life as a journey not a destination.
Active and Precise
Based on Daoism’s Ba-Zi or ‘Chinese Zodiac’ tradition, people who know Vija Celmins well know them as someone who can be tough, active, and sharp, like a sword.
Altruistic and Innovative
According to Hinduism’s Jyotisha or ‘Vedic Astrology’ tradition, many would also describe Vija Celmins as someone who is altruistic, inventive, energetic, and socially-conscious.
Who is inventive, open-minded and inquisitive, optimistic and cooperative, and who loves working together with others.
Intelligent and Leadership-oriented
Based on the Mayan Tzolk’in or ‘Mayan Astrology’ tradition, Vija Celmins is someone who is able to see things that others don't, and who can be an effective guide or mentor to others.
They are also someone who is creative, expressive, and insightful, and who has a pioneering spirit with self-determination and natural artistic expression.
Mysterious and Methodical
According to Judaism’s Kabbalah tradition, Vija Celmins tends to be someone who can come across as mysterious and intense, who can be a complex thinker who is methodical and intuitive, and who can overcome challenges that most others would not be able to.
Some of Vija Celmins's challenges
While Vija Celmins has many strengths, nobody is perfect. They also have some challenging traits they need to manage.
For example, Vija Celmins can be Emotional, Complicated, Brusque, Indecisive, Unrealistic, Anxious, and Inflexible.
Complicated and Brusque
One of Vija Celmins's key challenges is that they are someone who can be complicated and gruff with others.
Anxious and Inflexible
Vija Celmins is someone who can be high-strung, impatient, and inflexible, who can be "penny wise and pound foolish", have poor listening skills, and who can be intolerant of people who share a different world view.
Sensitive and Aggressive
Finally, Vija Celmins also can be too "touchy-feely", have a hard time expressing feelings, be too aggressive and headstrong, and be too unforgiving of others' mistakes.
