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"Vase
with Leaf", 1996
By Christos Caras
(1930-2023)
Oil on canvas, 73Χ54 cm.
Inv. No.: P-101
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CHRISTOS
CARAS (1930-2023)
Born at
Trikala (Thessaly),
Christos Caras studied Political Sciences at the Panteios School
(1948-1950). He continued at the School of Fine Arts
(1951-1955)
with painting and fresco by Yannis Moralis and Andreas Georgiadis and
sculpture with Yannis Pappas. He later moved to Paris with a
state scholarship (1957-1960), where he
studied fresco at the École des Beaux Arts. In
1973 he went to New York, where he worked for two years with a Ford
Foundation scholarship.
His first one-man exhibition took place in Athens (1961), but he
participated in group exhibitions already since 1958.
Other
solo and group shows in Greece and abroad followed.
In 1963,
he founded with other Greek artists the Group "Tomi" (Incision) and in
1976 the "Greek Artists League". He also
contributed in the organization of art and cultural conferences and
symposia (1963,
1977, 1981).
His work moves in the
abstract and surrealist area or even beyond that. Christos Caras passed away in Athens (2023).
P.D.Cangelaris,
Reflections upon Greek Contemporary Painting, The Cangelaris
Collection, vol.2,
Athens 1999
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