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"Fourfold
Landscape", 1980
By Dimitris Mitaras
(1934-2017)
Acrylic on canvas, 145Χ200 cm.
Inv. No.: P-19
"Panayotis
Cangelaris", 1982
By Dimitris Mitaras
(1934-2017)
Oil on canvas, 100Χ150 cm.
Inv. No.: P-27
"Dogs
Νο 4", 2001
By Dimitris Mitaras
(1934-2017)
Acrylic on canvas, 80Χ60 cm.
Inv. No.: P-132
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DIMITRIS
MITARAS (1934-2017)
Born at Chalkis,
Dimitris Mitaras studied painting with
Yannis Moralis and Spiros Papaloukas at the School of Fine Arts, Athens
(1953-1957), where he was awarded with several Prizes. With a
state scholarship he studied (1957) the folklore art on the Island of
Mytelene and later attended lessons on stage scenery at the École
Supérieure
des Arts Décoratifs
and interior design at the École
des Métiers
d'Art, in Paris (1960-1964). He had his first solo exhibition
in
Athens (1961). Other one-man and group shows in Greece and
abroad
followed, including the Pan-Hellenic for Young Artists, the
Biennales of Alexandria, Paris, Sao Paolo and Venice a.o.
Since
1964, he taught at the Athens Technological Institute (Doxiadis School)
and in 1975 he was elected professor at the School of Fine
Arts of which he was the Dean (1982-1985). In 1978 he founded
the
Chalkis Art Workshop.
He was awarded with the 1st Prize at the Pan-Hellenic Exhibitions for
Young Artists (1958 and 1961), as well as with the Young Artists Prize
of the Poster Contest in 1961. In 2008 he was elected
permanent
member of the Academy of Athens. He was named Commander of
the
Order of the Phoenix and was awarded the Gold Medal of the City of
Chalkis (2008). He had designed the stage
scenery
for a series of theater performances and had decorated many public
places. Moving from a sort of expressionist abstraction
towards a
critical realist character and trying to correlate the metaphysic
painting with surrealist perceptions, he succeeded in forming a
particularly recognizable personal artistic style. Dimitris
Mitaras passed away in Athens (2017).
P.D.Cangelaris,
Reflections upon Greek Contemporary Painting, The Cangelaris
Collection, vol.1 and 3,
Athens 1991 and 2015
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