“Color should always have meaning!”
Alekos Fassianos (13 December 1935 – 16 January 2022) was a renowned Greek painter and student of Ioannis Moralis. He gained recognition for his distinctive style, which was characterized by immediacy and a deliberate departure from standardized painting techniques. More on https://www.alekosfassianos.gr/
“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
More on https://www.nationalgallery.gr/en/artist/prekas-paris/
“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.
More on https://www.galerielefakis.com/en/artist/giorgos-stathopoulos
