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Three oil paintings and two drawings by Theoharis Mores in the municipal gallery of Ioannina : some first observations on the work of an «unknown» painter

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• Ζάρρα, Ιλιάνα

Although Theoharis Mores (1927-1992) had been a painter with an international career, he is being rediscovered during the last few years by some greek studies (1996, 1999) dedicated exclusively to his work. Recently I have traced a small number of paintings signed by him in the Collection of the Municipal Gallery of Ioannina. These works belong to several periods of his artistic creation and thus can be considered to be weil representative of his persona] means of expression. His artistic language consists of a humanist repertoire, a wide scale of manners in using the color and a variety of techniques. Moreover, specific motives-symbols (horse, mask, complex of mother and child, floating figures, human figures with more than one heads) are being repeated in the paintings of almost all his phases, prompting me to attempt an interpretative approach of them, according to the works of Ioannina. All the above elements assign to the paintings of Mores a «surrealistic»-idealistic character, which has diverse origins, since the artist is influenced in one hand from the greek tradition (architecture and clothing reflecting Byzantine typology) and in the other hand from several movements of European modernism and particular artists, for example P. Klee and M. Chagall.

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ζωγραφική, μοντερνισμός

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