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Stamatis Polenakis (poet)
Stamatis Polenakis (; 1908- 19 April 1997) was a 20th-century Greeks, Greek artist. Although best known as a cartoonist, he was also a painter and moreover the creator of the first Greek Animation, animated film ''Il Duce Narrates'' (1945). Biography Polenakis was born in Athens, Greece, in 1908 into a family that originated from Sifnos. He studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts, and his first illustrations were published in newspapers and magazines by the time he was still undergraduate. During the late 1930s he was already considered a notable cartoonist, and the same period he also worked as a graphic designer. During the Axis Occupation of Greece, Polenakis fled to his home island, Sifnos, where he secretly started sketching cartoons about the Greco–Italian War mocking Benito Mussolini and the Royal Italian Army during World War II, Italian forces. After the Liberation of greece, Liberation of Greece and his return to Athens, those sketches were used in order to create th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athens
Athens ( ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Greece, largest city of Greece. A significant coastal urban area in the Mediterranean, Athens is also the capital of the Attica (region), Attica region and is the southernmost capital on the European mainland. With its urban area's population numbering over 3.6 million, it is the List of urban areas in the European Union, eighth-largest urban area in the European Union (EU). The Municipality of Athens (also City of Athens), which constitutes a small administrative unit of the entire urban area, had a population of 643,452 (2021) within its official limits, and a land area of . Athens is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, world's oldest cities, with its recorded history spanning over 3,400 years, and its earliest human presence beginning somewhere between the 11th and 7th millennia BCE. According to Greek mythology the city was named after Athena, the ancient Greek goddess of wisdom, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
