Family
Traditions
Sea
Nature
Religion
Food
Costume
And in his own way and style, he expresses this. He is a conduit.
His paintings are more naive than childish. He is not a trained artist, he is self-taught. He is honest, he expresses what he sees, for you to see through his eyes.
And in his own way and style, he expresses this. He is a conduit.
His paintings are more naive than childish. He is not a trained artist, he is self-taught. He is honest, he expresses what he sees, for you to see through his eyes.
EXHIBITION BLURB:
The George Pol. Georghiou - Timeless Cyprus exhibition has been organised on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the artist's death. The title, suggested by Georghiou's family, reflects the essence of Georghiou's body of work, almost completely immersed in Cyprus, its people and its history. Far from reducing his work to simplistic representations of mores or folklorist references, Georghiou opted to traverse the island's historical and cultural pathways to gain insight into the present. He sought to trace, understand, deepen, interpret and assert what he considered to be the indigenous voice of the island. In his work, he employed piercing clarity and knowledge in order to elicit time-resistant spiritual values and ways of life, as well as meaningful symbols semantically interwoven with certain fixed coordinates of his country's character.
Georghiou lived and produced the largest volume of his oeuvre on an island colonised by a Western country during a period when peoples across the world were awakening to claims of independence and freedom. The overall ideological climate infused his art. Through his work, he sought to assert an identity based on the local element. The choice he made is a token of love for his homeland, a place with a long, active past that set the scene for a dignified present.
Georghiou's creative dialogue with international artistic heritage, in tandem with the ecumenical values that permeate his art, render his work simultaneously indigenous and global.
Georghiou lived and produced the largest volume of his oeuvre on an island colonised by a Western country during a period when peoples across the world were awakening to claims of independence and freedom. The overall ideological climate infused his art. Through his work, he sought to assert an identity based on the local element. The choice he made is a token of love for his homeland, a place with a long, active past that set the scene for a dignified present.
Georghiou's creative dialogue with international artistic heritage, in tandem with the ecumenical values that permeate his art, render his work simultaneously indigenous and global.
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