Collection's title

Ioannina - The Castle, 1986

Ioannina - The Castle, 1986
Ioannina - The Castle, 1986
Artist
Prekas Paris
(Athens 1926 - Athens 1999)
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Prekas Paris
(Athens 1926 - Athens 1999)

The rich opus of Paris Prekas includes sculpture, painting, print-making, and architecture. It represents a constant quest which fruitfully combined the present with the past, a fervency which prompted him to discover Greece, as he journeyed in its history or set down an impression of its every corner, every place of memory, every expression of its soul, which he depicted in a composite, highly personal artistic idiom. Using particularly water-colour in the rendering of landscape, which dematerialises and spiritualises the content by its translucency, he created pictures which were not confined to a mere topographical depiction, but served as an experiential contact of the artist with space. By constructivist-abstract aesthetic approaches and references to the simplicity and austerity of ancient Greek art, he combined in his painting history, myths, and traditions to produce compositions of a monumental character, sometimes with symbolic extrapolations.

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Υλικό
Watercolour
Dimensions
50X73
Source
-
Description
Ioannina - The Castle bears witness not only to the artist's design capabilities, his free and spontaneous treatment of the colours, but to that which he himself called "the gift of God - the measure of life". The depiction of the lake, of the castle, and of the mosque, although rendered in an expressionistic mood, brings us very close to a romantic description of life in times past. An atmosphere of the novel, of imagination, and mystery surrounds the castle and initiates the viewer into the content of its history.