Dear Roger, Lydia, Miguel and all!
I like very much all pics that you've shared on this page. Here are a few paintings with a predominant theme PEACE, painted by Greek painter Matthew Christou :
Dream of Peace, by by Matthew Christou
Mattheos Christou was born in Cyprus, in 1956. It was a year notable for conflicts including Britain and France bombing Egypt, USSR testing its nuclear bomb, the Battle of Algiers, Cyprus fighting the British for independence, and the Soviets invading Hungary. Conflict returned to Cyprus in 1974, although by then Mattheos was in Athens, at the School of Fine Arts. Among his tutors was Dimitris Mytaras, one of the most important Greek painters of the 20th century.
The curving shapes in the paintings of Mattheos Christou are free and spontaneous; there are no aggressive hard angles or sharp lines, and for him their absence represents peace. The forms in his paintings remind one of the serenely simplified sculptures of Brancusi. This sculptural approach, with its economic colour palette of blue, red, ochre and brown acrylics, with painted black borders instead of frames, combine to create his distinctive recognizable style. This is a style that he has retained throughout the years, although recently he introduced the colour green to convey optimism, and the eyes always depicted with a soulful Byzantine gaze, are often closed in contemplation or meditation.
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