Panayiotis Tetsis
Panayiotis Tetsis | |
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| Born | 1925 Hydra, Greece |
| Died | 5 March 2016 |
| Occupation | painter |
Panayiotis Tetsis (
post-impressionistic seascape tradition.[1]
Life and work
Born in 1925 on the island of
Hydra, where he spent his childhood and early teenage years, Tetsis moved to Piraeus
in 1937.
Legacy
Though the artist depicts marine themes that are familiar to him - mostly set against the backdrop of Hydra and Sifnos. “If I take a long voyage at sea, I get bored,” Tetsis says, “and I don't agree with
Cavafy that headed for Ithaca
we ought to hope that the voyage lasts as long as possible.” And he added: “I paint a large number of my seas from memory. I don’t need to paint them from life. And even if I do, I change them later in my studio, even changing them totally.”
Balancing discipline and emotion, Tetsis regards himself as a painter driven by the senses. His singularity, according to Koutsomallis, consists in his combination of “elegiac colour tones, compositional clarity and precision, thematic variety, a monumental character and freely, openly sketched contours”.
In 1949 Tetsis along with
Yiannis Tsarouchis
, established the "Armos" art group.
See also
- Yiannis Tsarouchis
- Nikos Engonopoulos
- Nikos Nikolaou
- Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas
- Yannis Moralis
References
- ^ "Πέθανε ο ζωγράφος Παναγιώτης Τέτσης - Ελλάδα - Η ΚΑΘΗΜΕΡΙΝΗ" (in Greek). kathimerini.gr.
- ^ Loukaki, Argyro. Cultural and Physical Space as a Condition of Artistic Vision: The Aegean in Greek Artists Maleas, Ghikas and Tetsis, in Actual Problems of Theory and History of Art: Collection of articles. Vol. 8. Ed. S. V. Mal’tseva, E. Iu. Staniukovich-Denisova, A. V. Zakharova. St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg Univ. Press, 2018, pp. 476–484. ISSN 2312-2129.
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