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He studied in Athens and then in the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. In 1865 he returned to Greece and became professor of painting in the Fine Arts School. In the period between 1870 and 1980, he traveled mainly to the East and his work shows signs of the oriental element he encountered. His subjects reflect the world of the Greek periphery...
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James Galanos |
| James Galanos has used his unique talent to dress famous personalities of the international jet set. He was born in Philadelphia, USA, and grew up in New Jersey, while his Greek origin is from the town of Naousa. |
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Yiannis Kokkos (1944) |
| Yannis Kokkos is one of the most famous art designers and directors of plays, operas, ballets. He was born in Athens and since 1963 he has been living in Paris. He studied at the School of National Theater of Strasbourg. |
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Theodoros Vryzakis (1817-1878) |
| He is considered the first painter of modern Greece, a recorder of the Greek War of Independence, which he viewed in a romantic and nostalgic way, with pompous, theatrical and detached figures. |
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Nicholaos Gyzis (1842-1901) |
| He is the artist whose work determined the route of Greek painting. A celebrated painter who, although living away from Greece, painted in a genuine Greek character. |
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Constantinos Volanakis (1837-1907) |
| He belongs to the School of Munich but his work reflects an acceptance of more progressive styles. He painted the sea, giving more emphasis on the natural than the human element. |
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C. Maleas (1879-1928) |
| Born in Constantinople, he studied architecture and painting. He lived in Paris for many years and when in Greece, he painted the defining features of the Greek landscape and the faces of the rural area. |
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Constantine Parthenis (1878-1967) |
| The artistic work of Parthenis has a fundamental meaning for Greek painting, as he is the patriarch of Modern Greek art. It is the work of an artist who overcame social and cultural adversities and established his personal visual perspective, without the limitations set by his environment. |
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Fotis Kontoglou (1896-1965) |
| Kontoglou was born in Asia Minor and when he came to Greece, he brought along the ideology of a whole civilization, that was about to be forgotten on the Greek mainland. |
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Theofilos (Chatzimichail) (1867-1934) |
| A self-taught folk painter with inspiration and sensitivity that went far beyond the conventionalism of folk art. Born in Mitilini, he spent most of his life there and in the villages of Mt. Pilio, painting the walls of private dwellings and shops and, more rarely, the surfaces of portable objects. |
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Yiannis Tsarouhis (1910-1989) |
| Tsarouhis’ art expresses the concept of greekness in a mature and inspired way. Influenced by the messages of Kontoglou and Parthenis, he visited Mt. Athos, where he was introduced to the byzantine element and then to the work of Theofilos, the Fauvism portraits, Braque and Matisse. |
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Spyros Vasiliou (1902-1985) |
| The most popular artist of the 20th century, a student of N. Lytras, a follower of Kontoglou and an admirer of the Flemish art, he painted subjects and faces of the familiar daily life in the midst of a changing Athens and Greece. |
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Nikos Chatzikyriakos-Ghikas (1906-1994) |
| A student of Parthenis, soon found his way to the Parisian circles, where he came in contact with cubism, which he transferred to his paintings as early as the 1930s. |
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Giorgos Bouzianis (1885-1959) |
| The leading expressionist artist of Greece with an international appeal, as early as 1912. Born in Athens, he went to Munich, after completing his studies in the Fine Arts School of his birthplace. |
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Yiannis Spyropoulos (1912-1990) |
| His paintings represent the most advanced achievement of Greek abstract art. In 1960 he was awarded the UNESCO prize at the Venice Biennale, for his lyrical and expressionistic abstraction and, since then, his paintings have become part of the best collections in Europe and the USA. |
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Yiannis Kounellis (1936) |
| One of the most distinguished representatives of the international avant-garde, a leading exponent of the arte-povera movement (making art using "poor" / found material), he was born in Piraeus and moved to Italy in 1956. |
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Theodoros Stamos (1922-1997) |
| The artist -one of the founders of American abstract expressionism- was born in New York but kept visiting his island of Lefkada very often. |
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Stephen Antonakos (1926) |
| Born in Githio, he migrated to New York in 1930 to become a prominent figure of post-war American art, using fluorescent neon tubes to illuminate his abstractions. |
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Takis (Vasilakis) (1925) |
| He started his career, assembling found and useless material and scrap metal, which he transformed into figures inspired by his heritage. In the period between 1954 and1958, he produced his "signal sculptures" and then his "telemagnetic art". |
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Lucas Samaras (1936) |
| He was born in Kastoria and moved to the United States in 1948, where he graduated from Rutgers University in 1959. His works analyze the everyday, familiar objects, giving them a perspective of ambiguity, presenting the unseen and uncontrollable side of them, and creating a disoriented setting. |
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William Baziotes (1912-1963) |
| One of the greatest figures of the American abstract expressionism, he was born in Pittsburgh to Greek parents. After seeing an exhibition of the work of Matisse, he decided to study painting and attended the National Academy of Design, in New York. |
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Chryssa |
| One of the outstanding artists of the USA, Chryssa was born in Greece and when she moved to the United States, she was impressed by the gigantic and luminous signs of the Times Square. |
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Nicholas Calas (1907-1988) |
| Born in Switzerland, to a wealthy Greek family, he studied law and started as a poet, before becoming one of the most prominent art critics of the 20th c. In 1935, he went to Paris, joined the surrealist movement and Andre Breton referred to him as one of the most brilliant minds of our times. |
