Yannis Spyropoulos - Juvenilia

Yannis Spyropoulos - Juvenilia at the Benaki Museum, Pireos, Athens.

This exhibition covered the work of eleven Greek artists who were influenced by the major events of the 20th century: WWII, the occupation of Greece by the Germans and the famine that ensued; the Civil War that followed the end of the war, and how it divided the nation; finally the seven years of the military dictatorship that brought so much suffering to the Greek people. 

In the exhibition we were shown how each artist's work developed and changed as they matured and how some moved on to abstraction. I will cover the work of one artist in each post.

Spyropoulos is an artist I had not come across before, but I like his abstract compositions. 

Writings II, 1957, (oil on paper)

In the Forest VI, 1958, (oil on canvas)

Dancers C, 1956, (oil on canvas)

Return H, 1965, (mixed media on canvas)

Ithaka B, 1959, (oil on paper)

Lindos No. 2, 1959, (oil on canvas)

Prologue D, 1964, (mixed media on canvas)

Anafiotika, A-IV, 1957, (oil on hardboard)

Ladders III, 1955, (oil on hardboard)

Ladder, 1985, (mixed media on paper)