Marangopoulou, Koula (1913 Kyparissia - 1997 Athens) Από την Κέρκυρα
Marangopoulou, Koula (1913 Kyparissia - 1997 Athens) Koula Marangopoulou trained at the Athens School of Fine Arts under teacher P. Mathiopoulos, while she also attended classes at the painting school of P. Vyzantios and A. Stylou-Diamantopoulou for one year. Still, the most defining period in the shaping of her personal style was the time she spent working alongside G. Bouzianis (during the 1940s). The experience of that cooperation is evident in her expressionist-tempered abstract compositions on themes such as genre scenes and landscapes, still lifes and portraits. The starting point of her personal artistic path was undoubtedly her experiences from the War, the Occupation and the daily lives of ordinary people in Athens and the provinces. The painter's preferred themes include landscapes, portraits and still lifes, in oil or watercolor, which feature color as their basic structural element. Bright and dense in her oil paintings, lower-toned and fluid in her watercolors, color is the predominant element which, in conjunction with her concise drawing, her abstract rendering of forms and her economy of composition, highlights the plasticity of the bodies and delivers the pulsating momentum of motion and life.
Η εμπειρία της συνεργασίας της με τον Μπουζιάνη είναι εμφανής στις εξπρεσιονιστικής διάθεσης αφαιρετικές της συνθέσεις που βλέπουμε εδώ, αν και απαλύνονται από την τρυφρότητα του υδατοχρώματος.