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Impressionist oil paintings & art prints by Yannis Stavrou. The contemporary Greek artist's collection of cityscapes, seascapes, marine-scapes leads to a fine art travel to landscapes of Greece: Athens, Salonica, Hydra, Corfu. Historic places, ports, ships. The harbours, the mysterious, heavy ships dominate on canvas and characterize the artist's peculiar work; his seascapes soon change to urban, industrial landscapes. Among Greek painters, Stavrou introduces a modern figurative painting expressed through impressionist colours and plain forms. Biography, exhibitions, publications. </p> <h2>Art Critic Text</h2> <p><b> "CITIES UNDER STAVROU'S SPELL"<br /> Written by Christy Papadopoulou <br /> "ATHENS NEWS", 7th of December, 2001(*) <br/> </b> </p> <p>"...Trams hauntingly roam the city streets under a veil of nostalgia for bygone days. Massive bulks of sculpture-like iron ships float in the still waters of the Thermaikos Harbour making their way through the stillness of the night or the cracking dawns fog. Rusted cranes and deserted storehouses also make "cameo" appearances in the industrial, often cinematic, settings inhabiting Stavrou's serene microcosm. Having originally studied sculpture in the Athens School of Fine Arts before painting won him over, Stavrou has been drawing his inspiration from the same thematic gamut over the years. He skillfully avoids repetition by experimenting with his chromatic palette and playing with light. With his favourite ochres, greens and blues, and his artistic manipulation of the blinding brilliance of daylight or more often so the delicate, gloomy hues of moonlight, Stavrou rejuvenates his subject matter. </p> <p>...The island of Hydra, the artist's muse for a decade now, stands in between Athens and Thessaloniki.Vertical lines in the place of curves, perspective and an intentional diversion from picturesque details to a disciplined and structured effect towards the depiction of Hydra's historical mansions and houses bear testimony to Stavrou's interest in architecture. This however, is translated as a balanced development of the composition within the boundaries dictated by the painting surface, and not as the adoration of the form alone in the academic sense. </p> <p>...Introspective and romantic in their disposition, Stavrou paintings, though dealing with landscape, break free from naturalistic renditions. The absence or discrete - often unnoticeable - presence of human figures, a ghost - like Parthenon as if standing in mid - air in defiance of the law of gravity and the all - engulfing, cathartic, tranquillity permeating Stavrou's atmospheric compositions are often invested with metaphysical air transcending the barriers of time and space..." </p> <p>(*) "Athens News" is the oldest English written newspaper in Greece; it belongs to the Lambrakis Journalist Organization S.A, which is also the oldest as well as the biggest Greek press/media company. </p> <p>The following text is included in the artist's catalogue under the title "Greece in Colours", published in 2000. </p> <p>Written by Dr Manos G. Biris, Professor of the Architecture History in the Polytechnic School of Athens (*) </p> <p>"...Yannis Stavrou is a painter who touches upon the city's metaphysical tissue. An offspring himself of the lucky generation, which witnessed the historical heart-rending moments of Greek urban centers, and more closely so in his city of Thessaloniki, he takes us by the hand, striding with confident strokes back to our legendary childhood evoked by his images; deep down into the bottomless hollow of Thermaikos harbour, where the massive metal shapes of ships are hovering all aloof, emerging through the midst of cracking-dawn's fog; up through the steep alleys traversing our neighbourhood and past the fading reflections of its households. The street-lamps' flickering light is cast upon windowpanes mixing with the first-born crescents of the rising sun. Our last stop finds us in the heart of the city center's morning awakening. And there, in the midst of the evocative setting of inter-war flats discerned by an artificial air of cosmopolitan facade, we spot the fine silhouette of a tram sliding through semi-darkness. </p> <p>Yannis Stavrou's serene images render a lifetime's essence - an essence of matter and spirit. In his own universe, he is moulding a harmonious relationship between the "urban landscape" and infinity. In infinity's unlimited domain he dares to boldly project the nature of his feelings through the use of light. No doubt, he is aware that light expresses best a city's soul..." </p> <p>(*)Dr Manos G.Biris is well known for his publications about the urban as well as neoclassical architecture. </p> <h2> <a href="http://www.greekinternetmarket.com/paintings.php"> Back To Paintings </a> </h2> <br/> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="clear_div"></div> </div>  <div id="footer"> <div id="left_footer"> <form id="subcribe_form" method="post" action="http://www.greekinternetmarket.com/scotmail/scotmail.mvc?subscribe&group=7c47becbc1"> <input type="text" value="Your Email Address" name="email" /> <input type="submit" value="" /> </form>  <a href="//www.controlscan.com/seal/verify5.php?id=236&dom=3CF23EEF" target="_blank" onClick="window.open('//www.controlscan.com/seal/verify5.php?id=236&dom=3CF23EEF', 'CS', 'menubar=no,scrollbars=1,height=500,width=500');return false;"><img border="0" src="//www.controlscan.com/seal/sealx5.php?id=236&dom=3CF23EEF" oncontextmenu="window.open('//www.controlscan.com/seal/verify5.php?id=236&dom=3CF23EEF', 'CS', 'menubar=no,scrollbars=1,height=500,width=500');return false;" /></a>  </div> <div id="right_footer"> <div id="col-1"> <h3>Order</h3> <ul> <li><a href="/mm5/merchant.mvc?Store_Code=G&Screen=LOGN">my account</a></li>   <li><a href="/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=G">shopping bag</a></li> <li><a href="/shipping.php">shipping info</a></li> </ul> </div> <div id="col-2"> <h3>Our Company</h3> <ul> <li><a href="/aboutus.php">about</a></li> <li><a href="/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=AFCL">affiliates</a></li> <li><a href="/testimonials.php">testimonials</a></li> <li><a href="/returns.php">return policy</a></li> </ul> </div> <div id="col-3"> <h3>Links</h3> <ul> <li><a href="/Greece-Travel-Vacation.php">greece travel links</a></li> <li><a href="/Greek-Music.php">greece music</a></li> <li><a href="/Greek-Wine.php">greece wine</a></li> <li><a href="/recipes.php">recipes</a></li> <li><a href="/festivals.php">festivals</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="clear_div"></div> </div> </div> <div id="sub_footer"> <span id="sub_left"> 2010 © GreekInternetMarket.com | All Rights Reserved. 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