Keturi vėjai was a Lithuania

Lithuania

Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...

n literary movement and literary journal, active from 1924 to 1928.

Keturi vėjai movement began with the publication of The Prophet of the Four Winds by Kazys Binkis

Kazys Binkis

Kazys Binkis was a Lithuanian poet, journalist, and playwright. He used the pseudonyms K.Alijošius, K. Papilietis, Kazys, Kazys Roviejietis, Nedarbininkas, Neklaipėdietis, Nelatvis, Nepartyvis, Ras Desta, Riza Chanas and others.-Biography:...

 (1893–1942). The theoretical basis of Keturi vėjai initially was futurism

Futurism (art)

Futurism was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th century. It emphasized and glorified themes associated with contemporary concepts of the future, including speed, technology, youth and violence, and objects such as the car, the airplane and the industrial city...

 which arrived through Russia from the West, and it later was influenced by cubism

Cubism

Cubism was a 20th century avant-garde art movement, pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music, literature and architecture...

, dadaism, surrealism

Surrealism

Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members....

, unanimism

Unanimism

Unanimism is a movement in French literature begun by Jules Romains in the early 1900s. It is based on ideas of collective consciousness and collective emotion, and on crowd behavior, where members of a group do or think something simultaneously...

, and German expressionism

Expressionism

Expressionism was a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas...

. The most influential futurist for Lithuanian writers was Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky

Vladimir Mayakovsky

Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky was a Russian and Soviet poet and playwright, among the foremost representatives of early-20th century Russian Futurism.- Early life :...

. Members of Keturi vėjai included founder Kazys Binkis, Antanas Rimydis (b. 1905), Juozas Tysliava (b. 1902), Salys Šemerys (b. 1898), Juozas Žengė (b. 1899), and Teofilis Tilvytis (b. 1903).

Poet Adomas Jakštas was a fierce critic of the Keturi vėjai movement. He objected to its literary principles, aesthetics, and philosophy. The only poet of that generation not attracted to Keturi vėjai was Stasys Santvaras who was more interested in symbolism and expressionism than in modern forms of poetry.

The poetry of dadaist

Dada

Dada or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in Zurich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1922. The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature—poetry, art manifestoes, art theory—theatre, and graphic design, and concentrated its anti-war politics through a...

 Pranas Morkūnas

Pranas Morkunas

Pranas Morkūnas - Lithuanian translator and poet dadaist.-Biography and literary works:Morkūnas was born in Riga, Latvia on 9 October 1900. In 1919 he was volunteer in Lithuanian army, later he participated in Lithuanian Riflemen's Union...

 (1900–1941) has been characterized as a continuation of rebellion started by Keturi vėjai against traditional poetry.

The Lithuanian school Keturi vėjai in Dublin, Ireland is named after the literary movement.