“My work is something like a journal made up from the emotions, the impressions, the memories and the quests of a lifetime…”

Yannis Moralis (April 20,1916, December 16,2009) was a multifaceted art figure who was awarded several distinctions in Greece and abroad. He was among the leading figures of twentieth-century Greek art — a great painter, sculptor, printmaker, stage designer and teacher whose works reflect the wealth of his visual imagination and the broad spectrum of his quests. More on https://www.jmoralis.gr/

“I am a student of the Attic light”

Yannis Tsarouchis (13 January 1910 – 20 July 1989) was a Greek modernist painter and set designer who achieved international fame, and was “known in particular for his homoerotic subjects,” including soldiers, sailors, and nude males.

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“Antiquity taught me how to think“

Paris Prekas (Athens 1926 – Athens 1999) A multifaceted creator, Prekas has been involved with painting, sculpture, decorative design and architectural ornamentation, making compositions for the interior and exterior spaces of apartment buildings and other public and community buildings. In painting he was originally involved with landscape while later, combining Greek reality with myth and tradition, he created thematic wholes which reflect the spirit of constructivism and abstraction. He has used similar motifs in his sculpture, with a combination of abstract, cubist and expressionist elements

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“Art and love are the only things that keep us interested in life. They dominate both wealth and poverty and war.“

Giorgos Stathopoulos, born on April 16, 1944, in Kallithea of Agrinio, Greece, embarked on his artistic journey at the Athens School of Fine Arts – ASFA (1966-1971). Under the guidance of mentors like Yannis Moralis and Nikos Nikolaou in painting, and Yannis Pappas and Dimitris Kalamaras in sculpture, he honed his skills. Stathopoulos gained recognition as a painter of folk art, a style that feels contemporary yet rooted in tradition. His artistic preferences lean towards anthropocentric themes infused with the Hellenic ideal.

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Nikos Zervos (1901 – 1988) was born in Corfu in 1901. The son of an old Corfu family, with roots from the great artistic family of the Prosalentides, he was a student of important artists of his time. For four years he studied in the workshop of Costas Parthenis and later with Marco Zaviciano, Ioannis Dragoumis and Rene Berlincourt, a distinguished Swiss painter, who maintained his artistic workshop in Corfu during the interwar years. Nikos Zervos lived and worked most of his life in Corfu, letting the natural environment of the island influence the subject matter of his works. He dealt almost exclusively with rendering the Corfu landscape, choosing an advanced impressionism, but never reaching abstraction.

Dimitris Anthis (1925 – 1991) was born in Corfu. He was taught painting in Corfu from 1936 to 1947 by Tin Florias. In 1950 he settled in Athens where he died in 1991. He was introduced to the secrets of painting by the Greek-French painter Tin Florias, to whom his teacher introduced him, seeing his inclination to painting. He worked with him from 1937 to 1954. Florias, who was an excellent painter and one of the founders of the Ecole de Montmartre in Paris, took an interest in his new student. He made him to love the beauty of the countryside and its people.

Agis Xomeritakis (1921 – 2016) was born in Corfu, to a father of Cretan origin. In Corfu, he began to cultivate his innate talent in painting, attending classes with great teachers (Trivoli, Florias, etc.). Following the Corfu watercolor tradition, he discovered that through the water surfaces and the multifaceted management of color, he had the ability to deposit every time what he had in his soul, succeeding in transmitting it to the viewer. He has been described as “the lyrical singer of flowers” and as the painter of simple sensations with sensibility and constant care for the beautiful.

“The wall of the house is the first canvas that a child has available to paint”.

Dimitris Mytaras (1934 – 2017) studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts (1953-1957) under Yannis Moralis and Spyros Papaloukas. During the period 1961-1964, on a scholarship from the State Scholarship Service, he continued his studies in Paris, where he attended lessons in set design at the Ecole Nationale des Arts Decoratifs under Labisse and J.L. Barreau and interior decorating at the Metiers d’Arts. His painting, anthropocentric by and large, is characterized by a strongly drawn line and pure and powerful color. Starting off with photorealism, he subsequently was influenced by abstraction and ended with an expressionistic form, while a large part of his work shows a marked tendency toward social criticism.

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