POPULATION EXCHANGE BETWEEN GREECE AND TURKEY
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For Greece the flames of Smyrna and the horror drama of the uprooted Greeks of Ionia will mark the final condemnation of the Utopian "Great Idea". Some artists have experienced the tragedy of the Asia Minor Catastrophe experientially.
FOTIS KONTOGLOY
Fotis Kontoglou (1896-1965) from Aivali,TURKEY saw his homeland be lost along with the eternal fires of Hellenism on the coast of Asia Minor.His friend Spyros Papaloukas, who had followed the campaign as a war painter, saw the rich harvest of his works disappear in the flames of burnt Izmir. The following year, in 1923, Papaloukas departs with another Asia Minor, the literate Stratis Duke, for Mount Athos, where they will spend a whole year practicing and studying Byzantium and the unique nature of Athos.
Fotis Kontoglou will briefly rejoin them in this purifying pilgrimage, which was expected to open new horizons for the Greek intelligentsia and the orientations of art. It is a period of intense spiritual fermentation and processes that will bear fruit over the next decade and seal the artistic creation of the so-called "Thirty Generation".In fact,the"heretical" painters of the renewed tendencies of the past decade are now becoming the protagonists of artistic life,and perhaps,for the first time,they have been officially supported by progressive government
DIAMADIS DIAMADOPOULOS
Diamantis Diamantopoulos was a pioneer and unique in the style of the Greek painter of the interwar generation.Diamantis Diamantopoulos was born in Magnesia, Asia Minor. His family, after the Asia Minor Disaster of 1922, settled in Athens. From a young age he showed his artistic talent by publishing and exhibiting many of his works.Since 1929 he has been publishing sketches in Children's Creation, which he signed under the pseudonym "Akamas". In 1930, he presented in the Athenian Hall of Artistic Ateliers the cubist style, which drew the attention. In 1931, he also exhibited"Asylum of Art".
From 1931 to 1936, she studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts, with teachers Dimitris Biskini and Constantine Parthenis.At the same time he treveled to Greece to study Byzantine and folk art and made scenes for the theatrical play Alkistis played at the charles Koun Folk Stage.In 1940 he presented his works at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.In 1947 he participated in a group exhibition held in the Rhombus room along with many other well-kown colleagues.In 1950 he decided to isolate himself in his studio house in Daphne , to devote himself exclusively to his work but also to stop exhibition and sellinh his works because he disagreed with the commercialization of art. His silence was interrupted only in 1964 wnen he participated in a large group exhibition in Cyprus with a single work he had already exhibited at the Rhombus Hall in 1947.
From 1931 to 1936, she studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts, with teachers Dimitris Biskini and Constantine Parthenis.At the same time he treveled to Greece to study Byzantine and folk art and made scenes for the theatrical play Alkistis played at the charles Koun Folk Stage.In 1940 he presented his works at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.In 1947 he participated in a group exhibition held in the Rhombus room along with many other well-kown colleagues.In 1950 he decided to isolate himself in his studio house in Daphne , to devote himself exclusively to his work but also to stop exhibition and sellinh his works because he disagreed with the commercialization of art. His silence was interrupted only in 1964 wnen he participated in a large group exhibition in Cyprus with a single work he had already exhibited at the Rhombus Hall in 1947.
GIORGOS SIKELIOTIS
He was born in Izmir Asia Minor .In 1922 with the Asia Minor disaster he came to Athens and settled with his family in Caesarea.He studied in Fine Arts School of the National Technical university of Athens from 1935 to 1940 where he has professor Constadinos Parthenis and Spyridon Vicatos.In 1940 he joined Albanian front.During the occupation with his work , he captured the pulse of the era mainly through the drawings and engravings,contributing to the struggle of the people of art and letters against the conquerors.In 1949 he became a member of the artistic group "Stathmi" which developed a rich artistic activity.Until his first solo exhibition (1954),he participated in several group exhibitions in Greece.In 1954 he organized his first solo exhibition in Athens ,with 80 works,in the room of newspaper "To Vima" while in 1957 while he participated in the Alexandria Biennale.In 1960 the Greek Committee of the International Union of Art Critics selected him as a nominee for the New York Guggenheim Museum International prize for his works "Girls with Doves" .During the period 1975 -1983 he organized more than 25 solo "Art Decentralization" exhibitions in collaboration with the Municipalities,Local Cultural Institutions ans the Panhellenic Culturak Movement, as he called them, in order to disseminate Art to the inhabitants of the various provincial cities of the region Greece.
