The art trail

One of the first things we do when we get back to Athens is go to Kolonaki and look at some of the  private galleries.  Not that much to look at this time, as everything closes down in August, and some of the galleries had already closed in late July.

The bus dropped us off at Syntagma Square, We walked past the Houses of Parliament, in front of which the shrine for the victims of the Tempi rail disaster has been .set up

First stop, the shop of the Gikas-Hatzikyriakos wing of the Benaki Museum

This platter on the window -  I could not tell who the artist is

bowl by Yannis Zois

print of the face of a young boy in the Fayoun style by Yannis Moralis

Fani Skoulikidi-Boukovala

Iosifina Kosma

Zoumboulakis Gallery:   Paintings by Knesse Douglas - Dreaming was not Enough

Vessels of Fruit, 2026, (oil, acrylic on canvas)

Untitled, 2026, (acrylic and oil on canvas)

A Vessel to Carry the Ocean, 2026. (oil and acrylic on canvas)

Athens Gallery of Art: Various artists

Stathis-Alexandros Zoulias, To the Castle, 2021

Vanessa Anastasopoulou,  Shardroot, 2025

Kez, Nyra, 2025

Oh dear! I did not record who this is by and I really like it.

Kalfayan Galleries, Konstantinos Mouchtaridis, The Earliest Winds

Vardaris, 2026

Lyvas, 2026

Zephyros, 2026

Windward, 2026

We then went to Philippou, our favourite taverna in Kolonaki, to have lunch

We sat on the terrace

but, as we sat by the window, we had a good view of the inside.

Vincent Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers, Part 2

To express the love of two lovers through a marriage of two complementary colours, their mixture and their contrast, the mysterious vibrations of adjacent tones'. To Theo, 1888

Vincent Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers, Part 1, at the National Gallery, London.

I just realised that I did not post the second part of this exhibition, so I am doing that now. If you want to see the first post please go here   . As usual, I am repeating the introduction from the first part, if you don't want to see it, skip to the first painting.

This exhibition consists of works that Van Gogh created in the course of two years whilst he lived in Arles and Saint-Remy-de Provence. It was a very productive period of his life where he created some extraordinary and innovative work. Some of these works are among his most famous and beloved creations whilst others are less familiar. What emerges from looking at these works is an intellectual artist of lucid intention, deliberation and great ambition.

Van Gogh varied his approach to style and use of colour to explore wide-ranging emotional and poetic possibilities, often with a literary or artistic source in mind. In aiming to convey meaning rather than accurately record nature, Van Gogh took a free hand in adjusting or recomposing what he observed to achieve his desired effects.

The Trinquetaille Bridge, 1888

The Courtyard of the Hospital at Arles, 1889

View of Arles, 1889

The Large Plane Trees (Road Menders at Saint-Remy), 1889

The Poet (3)

Sunflowers, 1888

Sunflowers, 1888

Oleanders, 1888

Still Life with Coffee Pot, 1888

The Arlesienne, 1890

The Arlesienne, 1890

Landscape with Ploughman, 1889

Landscape at Saint-Remy (Enclosed Field with Peasant), 1889

Landscape from Saint-Remy (Wheatfield behind Staint-Paul Hospital), 1889

 

A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889

Long Grass with Butterflies, 1890

Olive Grove with Two Olive Pickers, 1889

Olive Trees, Saint-Remy, 1889

Olive Trees, 1889

The Olive Trees, 1889

Mountains at Saint-Remy, 1889

More of Van Gogh's work in this blog: 

Van Gogh in the Van Gogh Museum  in 2014

Van Gogh at the Van Gogh Museum - 2  in 2014, in Amsterdam

Van Gogh - after Millet in 2014, in Amsterdam

Van Gogh and Britain in 2019 at Tate Britain

Kiefer/Van Gogh  in 2015 at the RA

Kiefer/Van Gogh - the drawings  in 2025 at the RA