Collection's title
The Waves
The Waves
Artist
Aristefs Phrixos
(Athens 1879 - Athens 1951)
CV
Aristefs Phrixos
(Athens 1879 - Athens 1951)
A pupil of Nikolaos Ghyzis and of Franz von Stuck, with whom he served his apprenticeship after concluding his studies at the Athens School of Fine Arts, Aristefs emerged as the most faithful representative of Jugendstil in Greece, an option which drove him into isolation as an artist.
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Colour crayons
Dimensions
44X67
Source
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Description
The Waves gives expression to this modern trend of the early twentieth century, as this was assimilated in a strange way by a Greek artist. It shows a crazy and ceaseless hide-and-seek of the waves, which have been transformed into snail-shaped horses' torsos, with strange, confused convolutions and spirals, asymmetrical from a vertical point of observation, but symmetrical from the horizontal. The rhythmical flow of the movement and the continuous, fluid subject, rich in recapitulations, is a discourse and manner of expression of Jugendstil style, and it is only in this context that the decorative, mannered line and the marked symbolism contained in it can be understood.