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Loucas Venetoulias

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• Παπανικολάου, Μιλτιάδης Μ.

The main theme of Loucas Venetoulias’ paintings (1930-1980) at the 1960s is the everyday life at the city of Thessaloniki: the commercial streets, the old factories, the poor neighbourhoods. At these works, with expressive simplicity and realistic accuracy, melancholy and poetic mood, he impresses his emotional connection to the urban landscape. At the end of the same decade and at the beginning of the 1970s he creates compositions that stress the sociopolitical element, where motifs, like photocameras, cine-cameras, persons-targets etc, function like symbols. As his work proceeds, he will paint landscapes from Santorini and still lives, while just before the 1980s he will come back to the iconography of the city of Thessaloniki and, with clear influences from pop-art, he will make paintings with the theme of big roads, building blocks and giant posters. Venetoulias constitutes one of the most significant artists of Thessaloniki, his painting is one of the most important expressions of modern greek realism.

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