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Houses on the shore

Houses on the shore
Houses on the shore
Artist
Ithakissios Vassilios
(1877/78-1977)
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Ithakissios Vassilios
(1877/78-1977)

After his studies at the School of Fine Arts, which he continues in Antwerp, Ithakisios worked for many years (1901 - 1922) in Smyrna. At the time of the Asia Minor Disaster, he took refuge in Athens. A short while afterwards, he left the city to settle in a cave on Olympus. He lived there for 20 years, before returning to the Greek capital. A devotee of the Greek countryside, he gained his inspiration from it for a large number of pictures, which entitled him to be described as par excellence a landscape artist. In spite of the fact that the approach which governs his landscape compositions is influenced by the realistic-classicist spirit of his studies, he developed a landscape painting which is marked by the purity of the atmosphere, the strong colours, and the contrasts of light and shadow caused by the Mediterranean sun.

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Oil on cardboard
Dimensions
27X36
Source
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Description
In Houses on the Shore, the austere structure and the sparingness of the colour - though the monochrome of the light brown of the dry landscape and deep blue of the angry sea between the zone with the houses in the foreground and the high mountains opposite - are features which characterise the composition and bear witness to the deeply academic training of the artist.