A prominent representative of American abstract expressionism, Theodoros Stamos concluded his work in Lefkada. Cappadocia encapsulates the painter’s inner search for the content and objective of painting, but it also foreshadows his subsequent course, his continuous quest for spirituality and inner truth, his understanding of the natural world and the harmonious flow of life and spirit.
Barring his early period of biomorphic works, in which natural forms are identifiable and legible, the rest of Stamos’s oeuvre effectuates a personal idiom of abstraction. His color fields of the 1954–63 period, one of which is Cappadocia, are conveying the density, inner rhythm and timbre of actual landscapes that the painter has either visited or attempts to translate their spirituality, as he interprets it, into painting language. This is the first series of works that would later take on a new form in his Infinity Fields of Lefkada, Turin and Delphi.
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Χρονολογία: 1960
Υλικό: Λάδι σε μουσαμά
Διαστάσεις: 179 x 152 cm
Αρ. Έργου: Π.4798
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