Apostolos georgiou biography for kids

  • Greek artist Apostolos Georgiou (born 1952), has had a long and successful career, yet he is someone we should look at again.
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  • Apostolos Georgiou (Born 1952) is active/lives in Greece.

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    APOSTOLOS MAKRAKIS (1831-1905), was a Greek lay theologian, preacher, ethicist and philosopher. He was born in 1831 on Siphnos Island in the village of Katavati and died on December 25, 1905 in Athens. His bust is in the square bearing his name at the entrance of the village. He is buried in his family chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary’s Annunciation.

    Having finished his elementary schooling in his birthplace, he went to Constantinople, where Tselepis Panagiotakis Kamesos, a native of Makri, who had served in Paris as ambassador of the Sublime Porte, gained his admission into the Great College of the Race of Xerokrene as a boarding lärling. At the end of his studies there, he took up the occupation of teacher. From 1853 to 1856 he acted a secretary to Agathangelos, the Metropolitan Bishop of Methymna, in Constantinople, and preached the gudomlig word in that district. In 1856 he was hired as Dean in the lyceum of Spyridon Patmios in Constantinople, where for seve

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    Apostolos Georgiou

    Not all ‘Artists to Watch’ are straight out of art school. Greek artist Apostolos Georgiou (born 1952), has had a long and successful career, yet he is someone we should look at again. His large canvases, some of which were recently on show at the vit Cube exhibition Tightrope Walk: Painted Images After Abstraction, can be now viewed at a solo show at Rodeo gallery (19 February 2016 – 9 April 2016).

    Georgiou often represents people caught in dynamic actions in his canvases; discussing energetically on sofas, moving chairs, looking out of a window or dancing in a room. The paintings have a strong emotional effect as the figures seem to have been interrupted in whatever they were doing, putting any narrative abruptly on hold and leaving the viewer with the exercise to reconstruct the past and future of the actors. The specific tension between what we see and what might have happened brings in a dialogue between the figurative and the abstra

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    APOSTOLOS GEORGIOU (born 1952)

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    signé en grec au revers
    huile sur toile
    110 x 130 cm. (43 5/16 x 51 3/16in.)

    signed in Greek on the reverse
    oil on canvas

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