Collection's title

Shores in the Aegean, 1923

Shores in the Aegean, 1923
Shores in the Aegean, 1923
Artist
Gioldasis Dimitris
(Morphovouni, Karditsa 1897 - Karditsa 1993)
Artist's CV
All artist's collections
CV
Gioldasis Dimitris
(Morphovouni, Karditsa 1897 - Karditsa 1993)

Dimitris Gioldasis was among those artists of the first 20 years of the twentieth century who sought to break free of the formalism imposed by the academic painting of the School of Fine Arts and to look for new modes of expression through the aesthetic principles laid down by the post-Impressionist movements in Paris, which had already become known in Greece. Thus his works, particularly those dating from the 1920s, notably bear the mark of the influence of Parisian Modernism, though adapted to circumstances in Greece, as his landscapes are true testimonies to natural features of the country. Yoldasis replaced bright colours with monochrome surfaces, since the blinding light of Greece restricts the colour range, while his intensity and lucidity make the line which defines the masses the medium of expression par excellence.

Share the page
Υλικό
Oil on cardboard
Dimensions
48X68
Source
Gift of Ioanna Vassiliadi-Loverdou
Description
Shores in the Aegean, which is dated 1923, belongs to a period which was definitive not only for the aesthetic shaping of the artist, but also for the evolution of the whole of Greek painting. In this work, traditional perspective has been abandoned, and an approach to space by level planes has been adopted, the subject being viewed from above, in a way which is often encountered in the work of the French Synthetist artists, with which he became acquainted, essentially, through the work of his teacher Constantinos Maleas, who introduced the spirit of renewal into Greek art.