“You don’t find art only in the museum....”
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Kouroupis Art, Koutouloufari, Crete, Greece
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Paintings by Domna Delliou
Thessalonika Greece
Thessalonika Greece
Authentic Greek sculpture, ceramics, glass, gifts, souvenirs, and jewellery, from Crete and Greece
An Artist is never alone. She is always with the forms, shapes, lines, and colours that she creates. In the case of Domna Delliou this is more obvious as her forms are mainly people, men and women, who dominate the picture instead of being secondary motives in the composition.
Faces, fragements of faces or bodies, provide clothing for natural materials such as wood or rocks, even, at times everyday objects such as chairs, boxes, and trunks are transformed into works of art bearing obvious marks of handicraft.
Faces, fragements of faces or bodies, provide clothing for natural materials such as wood or rocks, even, at times everyday objects such as chairs, boxes, and trunks are transformed into works of art bearing obvious marks of handicraft.
Working in acryllic on canvass as well as other materials, Domna’s world is always understandable and recognisable, creating a style inherited from ‘ popular ‘ and Byzantine art, but with her own personal sense of space and form.
Many fragments of human history are used in her art, pre-historical Cycladic statues, the classical statues of Kourous and Kores, Fayum and Byzantine art, and popular art, are brought together without affectation. The strong penetrating eyes and intense glances are reminiscent of Byzantine art and the master painters, Kontoglou, Eggonopoulous, Eygptian painters, and the work of the graphic artist in advertising.
Many fragments of human history are used in her art, pre-
Looking closely at her work we discover all these fragments from the past coming to the present through a joyful but sometimes poignant art which refers directly to the only subject, mankind.
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Domna Delliou first visited us in 2008, and we are pleased to announce that she will be visiting us again this summer 2009. At present the dates of her visit are to be confirmed, but we expect her to be here during June or July. We show here some of the works she painted during her last visit.