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Pantazis, for Metsovo, 1996

Pantazis, for Metsovo, 1996
Pantazis, for Metsovo, 1996
Artist
Droungas Achilleas
(Piraeus 1940)
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Droungas Achilleas
(Piraeus 1940)

Droungas studied engraving and stage set design at the Athens School of Fine Arts and continued his studies at the Slade School in London in the period 1970 - 1973, while in 1975 and 1976, with scholarships of a few months duration from the Ford Foundation, he followed courses on lithography techniques at universities and studios in the USA. Droungas started out as an engraver, and then gradually turned to painting; by 1974 he had devoted himself to it exclusively. By a yoking together of thematic features from the past and of innovative objects from everyday life, Droungas leads the viewer by a process of suggestion, by symbols and archetypes, to earlier forms of art or personal experiences. The isolation of a well-preserved moment, the detailed photographic description of the objects, the suggestive lighting, the exceptional clarity of the image, and, particularly, the undisturbed immobility lead to a trompe l'oeuil which frequently starts out from the painted representation of the frame, which does not play a restrictive role but a primary one, in extending to the very subject of the picture.

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Oil on canvas
Dimensions
69X83
Source
Gift of the artist
Description
Pantazis, for Metsovo was produced within the context of the tribute to the great Greek nineteenth-century painter, by Averoff Museum, held at Metsovo in 1996. What is depicted is a still life by Pantazis, bounded by a frame, while the blue ribbon tied crosswise creates the impression that the work has been put into a box, ready to be given as a gift.