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Monastery, 1913

Monastery, 1913
Monastery, 1913
Artist
Chatzis Vasileios
(Kastoria 1870 - Athens 1915)
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Chatzis Vasileios
(Kastoria 1870 - Athens 1915)

He studied painting under professors Nikephoros Lytras and K. Volanakis (1888 - 1893). During the Balkan Wars of 1912-1913, his work portrayed the activities of the Greek fleet. A pupil of Volanakis, Vasileios Chatzis, both by his highly-skilled technique and the perfection of his design, and by the free development of his subject in terms of colour, creates a sense of a new form of painting, which, moreover, in some works comes close to the freedom of the Impressionists. Even those of his works with more realistic features possess the characteristics of colour and design which set him among the painters who gave a modernist form to Greek painting of the time.

He was generally interested in painting seascapes and scenes from the lives of sailors and followed  the teachings of the school of Munich and those of his professor, K. Volanakis, in particular.

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Υλικό
Oil on cardboard
Dimensions
28X21
Source
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Description
The work Monastery, which is dated 1913, and must have been produced shortly before his death, could be said to define the breadth of the oeuvre of a painter who, having started out from the conventional framework of the academic approach, turned towards a kind of painting in which light and colour play the leading roles. In the last years of his life, Hatzis developed a form of landscape painting which can be placed within the open-air trends of his time, with strong colour and viscous brush-strokes - juxtaposed in zones, within the context of an Expressionism whose messages were reaching him from Munich. We should not, perhaps, overlook the influence of the painter Yorgos Bouzianis, who was a close friend of Hatzis.