"Dionysiac-Sertic Dance", 1980
By Yiorgos Stathopoulos (1944)
Oil on paper, 37Χ70 cm.
Inv. No.: P-20

Born at Prostova in Trichonida, Yiorgos Stathopoulos studied painting and sculpture at the School of Fine Arts, Athens, with Yannis Moralis, Nicos Nicolaou, Yannis Pappas and Dimitris Kalamaras (1966-1971).  He had his first one-man show in Athens (1970).  Other solo and group exhibitions followed in Greece and abroad.  He has also illustrated a series of books, phonographic disk front pages and posters.  His work is enlisted in the area of Greekness and combines surrealist and expressionist elements in a naive writing.  He lives and works in Athens.

P.D.Cangelaris, Reflections upon Greek Contemporary Painting, The Cangelaris Collection, vol.1, Athens 1991