Collection's title

Nausikaa, 1967

Nausikaa, 1967
Nausikaa, 1967
Artist
Chrysochoidi Titsa
(Athens 1906- Athens 1990)
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Chrysochoidi Titsa
(Athens 1906- Athens 1990)

The dominant theme in the sculpture of Titsa Chrysochoïdi is the human form, and usually the female figure, which she worked first and foremost in bronze. In spite of the fact that she acquired her early artistic training in the studio of Thomas Thomopoulos, who was associated more with the realism of Rodin, she orientated herself towards the post-Rodin models with which she became acquainted during her stay in Paris in the period 1930 - 1934, when she worked in the studio of Thanasis Apartis; she then studied at the Grande Chaumière Academy. The great influence upon her was, however, that of Aristide Maillol, and this can be seen from a comparison of the sculptures, both as regards the type of the bodies and the postures of the figures, which bear witness to a profound and persistent study of the work of the great sculptor.

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Υλικό
Bronze
Dimensions
50X62X40
Source
Gift of Evmenis Lambridis
Description
These works served as models for motifs which Chrysochoïdi worked on tirelessly from the end of World War II onwards. The women are often depicted in a lying position and nude, always with well-balanced organic curves which render the movement of each silhouette fluid. She combines features of ancient stylisation and simplification in the faces with markedly rounded masses in the bodies, thus achieving a distinctive type, interwoven with her style. Her figures are shaped in a manner which is simple and clear-cut, and convey a sense of completeness, of integrity.