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Ship in a storm, 1896

Ship in a storm, 1896
Ship in a storm, 1896
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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Oil on canvas
Dimensions
60X97
Source
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Description
Τhe work Ship in a Storm belongs among the artist's early creations, as can be seen from the date. It was natural that his apprenticeship with Constantinos Volanakis during his time as a student at the Athens School of Fine Arts should have influenced the young painter, not only as to his subject-matter, but also as regards style and the manner of organising the composition. Thus his early works - often of large dimensions - are marked by an academic approach to the rendering of the subject and a realistic direction in the depiction of the scenes. Later, Hatzis was to involve himself in explorations of the influence of light on the rendering of objects in the open air which were purely personal experiences, given that he never travelled abroad.