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Yannena

Yannena
Yannena
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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Υλικό
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
65X80
Source
Gift of George Al. Tsatsos
Description
Metsovo, Monastery of St Nicholas and Yannena are images from his beloved Epirus, Malamos's place of origin, which he never abandoned except for his residence in Athens after finishing his studies at the School of Fine Arts. Both works belong to the post-1970 decades, a period at which his individual style, particularly in the rendering of buildings, had already taken shape. In Yannena, the melancholy of the countryside in winter is conveyed by shades of blue and grey with the bare trees reflected in the waters of the lake, while in the background the houses of the city, also grey, contribute to the dejection of the landscape. The intention of rendering the atmosphere of an icy day in Epirus distances the work from a picturesque representation, turning it into a 'psychobiographical' landscape.