Giorgos (also mentioned as Yorgos or Georges) Ioannou (10 December 1926 – 13 February 2017) was a Greek artist.
Biography
Born in
Athens
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, he is considered to have been one of the main representatives of the
Pop Art movement in
Greece
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.
In his work by adopting the main aspects of pop art and utilizing the techniques employed by
comic book
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s, he turned to
satirizing social and political reality, creating compositions with a
surrealistic
Surrealism is an art movement, art and cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists aimed to allow the unconscious mind to express itself, often resulting in the depiction of illogical or dreamlike s ...
atmosphere and symbolic allusions.
References
* National Gallery, Greec
Giorgos Ioannou* Αρχείο Τ. Σπητέρη - Φάκελοι Καλλιτεχνών
Γιώργος Ιωάννου, Τελλόγλειο Ίδρυμα Τεχνών, Α.Π.Θ.
* Π.Δ.Καγκελάρη
Αναζητήσεις στη Σύγχρονη Ελληνική Ζωγραφική - Η Συλλογή Καγκελάρη, τόμ.2, Έκδοση πρώτη, Αθήνα 1999,
* Λεξικό Ελλήνων Καλλιτεχνών, τόμος 2, (Θ-Λ), Zωγράφοι-Γλύπτες-Χαράκτες, 16ος - 20ός αιώνας (εκδ.Μέλισσα 2000)
* Giorgos / Georges Ioannou (official site
External links
Giorgos Ioannou National Gallery
* ttp://www.tf.auth.gr/teloglion/default.aspx?lang=el-GR&loc=1&&page=556&item=6879 Αρχείο Τ. Σπητέρη - Φάκελοι Καλλιτεχνών - Γιώργος Ιωάννουbr>CONTEMPORARY GREEK PAINTING THE CANGELARIS COLLECTIONExhibition "Giorgos Ioannou, Album 1940-1974" (BCU, November 2016-January 2017)
Giorgos Ioannou (official site)
1926 births
2017 deaths
Pop artists
Greek painters
Greek contemporary artists
Artists from Athens
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