立陶宛的跳水爱好者们最近把二十多张当地摄影艺术家的作品放入该国西部的一个湖中，开创了立陶宛国内首个水下艺术馆，并声称在水下欣赏艺术是完全不同的一种体验。据当地跳水专业协会的负责人表示，萌生这个想法是受了跳水俱乐部一对夫妻的启发，他们把结婚照放到水下，每次跳水的时候都在水中欣赏一番。因为大家长期在同一个地方跳水已经对水下景致产生了审美疲劳，于是便有了办水下艺术馆的主意。除摄影作品外，他们还打算将花窗玻璃、水彩画以及雕塑等艺术作品搬到水下；同时，还计划到其他国家去办水下艺术馆。
Dive enthusiasts in Lithuania have opened the country's first underwater picture gallery, saying the waters of a lake in the west of the Baltic state unveil the beauty of art like nowhere on land.
Twenty large format photographs by local artists were put on display in lake Plateliai, western Lithuania, at the weekend.
Organizers say they plan to expand the project in the future to include stained-glass, water color paintings as well as sculptures.
"Art is experienced totally differently in the water," Andrius Albrikas, head of local diving academy, told AFP on Monday.
Bored with diving the same locations over and over again, local divers came up with the idea for the underwater gallery after a couple from a local diving club put their wedding picture underwater to enjoy it every time they dive, Albrikas said.
"I believe creators of stained glass, water color paintings and sculptures will also start displaying their works. There could be mobile galleries to move from one lake to another and to other countries," Albrikas said.
"Of course, this is not the Red Sea, but now you can't complain there is nothing to be seen in local lakes," he joked.