Little House, c. 1930-1935
He studied in Italy and was particularly influenced by the painting of G. Segantini. He was a very prolific artist and focused primarily on themes related to the open countryside of Greece.
He developed an individual style based on the richness of colours used and a perception of the decorative nature of landscape.
An extremely prolific painter who for more than 70 years painted views of the landscape of Greece and subjects from rural life, Epameinondas Thomopoulos left behind him a rich oeuvre which belongs among the extrapolations of Impressionism, and particularly of Italian Pointillism. He became acquainted with the latter during the course of his studies at the famous School of Naples, but also in Rome and Venice, after which he created his own personal manner, with a marked decorative element.
In Little House, in spite of the fact that human figures are not shown, the covers at the window and the domestic animals in the yard bear witness to life in the little farmhouse. It should, however, be pointed out that this line of Thomopoulos's thinking exhausted itself in purely anecdotal features in a bucolic environment, in which the belated neo-impressionism and the mass production of his later years led his painting into standardisation.
