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Plaka with Acropolis in the background

Plaka with Acropolis in the background
Plaka with Acropolis in the background
Artist
Malamos Costas
(1913-2007)
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Malamos Costas
(1913-2007)

An artist of modern everyday reality, Costas Malamos depicts in his works the life, history, passions, and environment of the Greek people. Without ever departing from representational painting and with colour as his main means of expression, he creates an art in which, often, the realistic style is not a mere record of the outer world, but ends in an effort to interpret it, as he gives an inner content to his work. Around 1965, in a unique combination of plein air painting and a realist style, he created his series of Athens neo-Classical buildings. The free painting, which is not restricted by the geometrical arrangement imposed by architecture, makes use of all the possibilities of light, while faithfulness in the rendering stresses the individual characteristics of each building, thus producing 'portrait' images. With the deathly silence which envelops them, they exude a metaphysical mood.

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Oil on canvas
Dimensions
34X30
Source
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Description
Plaka with the Acropolis in the background provides a view of Athens from the veranda of his house on Lycabettus and is dated 1948. In Malamos's works of this period, bright colours, formed with harmonious tones on distinct levels, produce a peaceful picture of the world around him. Later, however, particularly after 1960, the artist, in his rendering of landscape, makes use of tensions and contrasts in colour in painting which denounces the abuse of the environment. The fluidity of the paint and the mauve and orange tones which define the hour of twilight lend a melancholy beauty to the buildings round the Acropolis, in the space which they dominate.