Video: Tenderness of watercolor Greece in the paintings of Pantelis Zografos (Pantelis Zografos)
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Chinese watercolors by Sylvia Molinari, subtle, airy watercolor illustrations for Alice in Wonderland by Korean artist Kim Min Ji, landscapes painted with watercolors by Singaporean author Jack Tia Kee Woon - it seems that only Asians can 100% use this whimsical tool, and create truly delicate and airy watercolor paintings. Looking at this painting, you yourself do not notice how you fall in love with it more and more, and it is not surprising that the native Athenian, Greek artist Pantelis Zografos, draws native land just like that. For 30 years Pantelis Zografos has not lived in Greece, but love for his homeland and the artist's vocation every day call him to canvas and paints, and there, in his studio, he paints watercolor Greece as tenderly as he could not would be done by someone who did not love. Parents who stayed in Athens, warm sea, ancient history, small old houses and streets lined with paving stones … And a riot of greenery and flowers.
However, Pantelis, who received his name in honor of his grandfather, had no choice but to draw. His family has long been known in Athens for their creative talents: both great-grandfather and grandfather, and his own father were artists, and the boy absorbed his love for art with his mother's milk and the smell of paint that smelled of his father's hands. In childhood and adolescence, he spent a lot of time with his father and grandfather in their workshops, and when he realized that painting was his vocation, he did not contradict him. True, initially painting was only a hobby, leisure, but having already settled in the United States, and replacing Madison with North Carolina, he made a hobby his main profession.
Today Pantelis Zografos is well known both in the United States and abroad, and his paintings are popular not only among emigrants who miss their native lands. A gallery of gentle watercolors by this artist can be seen on the Greek painting website.
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