6th senior hight school of Kavala - Painting Europe- Paintings based on work of Alekos Fasianos 2: 3D Gallery

Alekos Fasianos

Alekos Fasianos is one of the most significant Greek
painters. He was born in the area of Plaka, Athens in 1935. He studied violin
at the Athenian conservatory and painting at the school of Fine Arts in
1956-1960 in Johns Moralis lab. He also studied ancient Greek iconography and
bysantin painting. Furthermore he attended lithography classes in Ecole des
Clairin-ats, Paris with a scholarship of the France government. In 1966 he
settled in Paris, while in 1974 he leaves and starts working in Athens. Since
1959, he has materialized more of 70 individual representations in Athens,
Thessaloniki, Paris, Munich, Tokyo, Hamburg, Zurich , Milan, London and so on.
He had taken participation in group representations all over the world. Fasianos
had also taken up engraving poster design and scenography while collaborating
with the national Greek theater. He also undertook plenty illustrations of
books, both in Greece and abroad. He published also lowercase texts and poems. There’ve
been about four films filmed, both in Greek and France television.

Alekos Fasianos

Alekos Fasianos has grew up in a family that played
a significant role through his career. First of all his mother, who used to be
a philologist, used to be taking him in archeological museums, making him
develop an interest for the ancient world. He himself has stated that he was
impressed by the illustrated vases, the Cycladic figures and mostly by white
Lycithas. All those figures can be easily recognized through his art style.
Meanwhile his knowledge of the ancient culture lead him owning plenty lore.

Alekos Fasianos

Another important person that seems to have
inspired him, is his grandfather. He, as a pastor he was, incorporated Alekos
in his local church. He was helping in ceremonies, a fact that he’d never been
ashamed of, as this way he was getting closer to god. And while
he accepted no pressure to become a pastor, life near the church has marked
him. He often states that when he paints he listens to chants and somehow
guides him. At the same time, as Alekos Fassianos admits, his grandfather was
the first to show him how to paint a person in profile. For his grandmother,
Chariklia was considered an eternal figure that influenced him. Fasianos’
father was a musician, a professor at the National Conservatory, and a
composer. So he moved him to learn violin. Although he was not affected by his
contact with music, his father spotted him differently. One day he took him to
an inscription lab to learn how to paint. Although the toddler was frustrated,
as he wanted to see real painters, this experience intensified his interest in
painting.

Alekos Fasianos

Alekos Fasianos painted on his own with influences from the ecclesiastical
icons and the ancient world of the Greeks that so fascinate him. Afterwards,
she studied at the School of Fine Arts for 5 years. There he learned more about
the design of ancient heads and nude models. In fact, his teacher Moralis
informed him of the effects of darkness on light and vice versa, on the
comparison of things and the distortion of objects by light. However, the
artist himself claims that he is self-taught. He stated in detail:

"They don't teach me painting in words. It can not be done. You have to
see and feel, to understand. That's what I did. "

Alekos Fasianos

And indeed Alekos Fasianos, without paying attention to the difficulties,
continued and continues to do what he loves to paint. One night when I had my
work in the yard dry, the milkman came and spent it on a carpet and wiped his
feet. He was taught, he says, by reality and nature. "But I do not imitate
what I see but the meaning of this thing. When I make a portrait of a man, I
try to capture his psychic world and not what I see, said Alekos Fasianos in an
interview.

Alekos Fasianos

Nature could claim to be one of the main features of Alecos Fassianos'
works. Beauty in itself is not what one sees but what you feel and maybe there
is a lack of modern people who do not observe nature but despise it. Indeed, in
order to escape the pattern, to free his eyes, he was close to works by ancient
painters who worked quickly and without reference to the model, as they had
learned from his movements. So well, he used to observe and paint very often
elements of nature such as birds, flowers, horses.

Alekos Fasianos

Another incident that
influenced his work was his every day adventures with his friends. Many
children, explains the artist, were looking forward to ‘being painted black’ by
the steam engines and see the impressive ‘big black cloud’, that is the smoke.
He was subconsciously affected by ‘smoke’ which we can see in many of his works
of art along with the wind blowing back the hair of his painting figures.

Alekos Fasianos

From a young age Alekos Fassianos has been
fascinated by the art of cinema. His love for the cinema led him to a great
interest for the theatre, especially for the domain of scene decorations. He
showed particular interest for plays relevant to myths or the ancient Greek
theatre.

Alekos Fasianos

Although he had received unfavorable reviews about
his decorations accusing him to be too simplistic, he refused to change his
style and defended himself stating ‘Theater is freedom’, the audience shouldn’t
be provided with every detail. There should be room left for imagination.
‘Those details go for paintings in which we can observe up close’. ‘In theatre
reality is distorted but the outcome is once again real’

Alekos Fasianos

‘Some things are inevitable, as if they are meant
to be. I remember when I was a student in the school of Fine arts, I used to
paint the floor, in front of my classmates’… And they last forever. That’s the opening
phrase of a note Alekos Fasianos wrote in the magazine ‘Zygos’ in 1973. And
that’s how he still treats his art; with the curiosity, the excitement and the
attitude of a child.

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