Giorgos Ioannou

Giorgos (also mentioned as Yorgos or Georges) Ioannou (1926 – 2017)[1] was a Greek artist born in Athens. He is considered to have been one of the main representatives of the Pop Art movement in Greece.

Giorgos Ioannou
Γιώργος Ιωάννου
Born(1926-12-10)10 December 1926
Athens
Died13 February 2017(2017-02-13) (aged 90)
Athens
NationalityGreek
MovementPop Art

In his work by adopting the main aspects of pop art and utilizing the techniques employed by comic books, he turned to satirizing social and political reality, creating compositions with a surrealistic atmosphere and symbolic allusions.[2]

References
  1. "Πέθανε ο ζωγράφος και χαράκτης Γιώργος Ιωάννου". In.gr. Retrieved 2017-02-14.
  2. "National gallery". nationalgallery.gr. Archived from the original on 2015-05-24. Retrieved 2015-05-24.
  • National Gallery, Greece Giorgos Ioannou
  • iset - Contemporary Greek Art Institute - Giorgos Ioannou
  • Αρχείο Τ. Σπητέρη - Φάκελοι Καλλιτεχνών, Γιώργος Ιωάννου , Τελλόγλειο Ίδρυμα Τεχνών, Α.Π.Θ.
  • Π.Δ.Καγκελάρη, Γιώργος Ιωάννου Αναζητήσεις στη Σύγχρονη Ελληνική Ζωγραφική - Η Συλλογή Καγκελάρη, τόμ.2, Έκδοση πρώτη, Αθήνα 1999, ISBN 960-85532-1-0
  • Λεξικό Ελλήνων Καλλιτεχνών, τόμος 2, (Θ-Λ), Zωγράφοι-Γλύπτες-Χαράκτες, 16ος - 20ός αιώνας (εκδ.Μέλισσα 2000) ISBN 960-204-226-5
  • Giorgos / Georges Ioannou (official site)


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