Walt Disney Christmas Cards

Since it's Christmas I decided to make a special contribution to them.

And really the first thing that came to my mind were these lovely

vintage cards with all my favorite disney figures.

So I wish you all Merry Christmas, lots and lots of joy

and playfull mood. 

And lets all remember how it feels to return to our childhood. 

At least that's what I did.

3D Street Art: where reality meets illusion.

I have to admit, street art it's not my thing. But when I see talent

I admire it. And these four artists have a unique talent.

With their alluring paintings, create depth and suddenly

a whole world jumps out a pavement, or a concrete floor.

Eduardo Relero

Eduardo Relero is a street artist working primarily in Spain.

His fanciful illustrative style looks like story board pages

come to life, and indeed its of his anamorphic sidewalk chalk

drawings seems to have a story behind it. 

Julian Beever

Julian Beever's world-renowned sidewalk chalk drawings

have been a viral hit all over internet, and it's easy to see why:

he's a master of anamorphic technique, which he's been perfecting 

since the mid 1990's.

Edgar Muller & Manfred Stader

Edgar Muller and Manfred Stader are a German team of street painters.

Much of their work is in the 3D anamorphic style, but both of them often

create traditional street paintings in a style that mimics the detail and realism

of the Renaissance and Baroque periods.

Kurt Wenner

Kurt Wenner's ability to transform Renaissance classicism into 3D

street art is unparalleled and has made him the most anamorphic

street painting artist of out time.

* all the images and the informations for the artists were taken from http://weburbanist.com/2008/06/29/top-10-3d-graffiti-artists-in-the-world/

The Little Prince

One of my favorite books, it accompanied my childhood

and I got to admit my adulthood too.. Little Prince followed me everywhere,

he made me dream and it was him that brought my inspiration back.

Along with a Little Princess...

Le Petit Prince author and illustrator was Antoine de Saint-Exupery.

The novella was first published in 1943 and it is the most read

and the most translated book in the French language.

     The rose was inspired by his Salvadoran wife Consuelo de Saint-Exup 

and the smalll home planet by her small home country, El Salvador, which is also 

  known as "The Land of the Volcanoes" due to having many of them.

Jackson Pollock

Paul Jackson Pollock, was an influential American painter

and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement.

He had a volatile personality, and struggled with alcoholism for most of

his life. He died in an accident in the age of 44.

Pollock invented a kind of art he called action painting. Many of his paintings are really big, like this one which is about 8 feet tall and 13 feet wide... as big as an entire wall in your house. Pollock would lay this giant canvas down on the floor of an old barn that he used for his studio. Then he would dip sticks into cans of paint and move all around the canvas, swooping and flicking paint one way and another. He built up layers and layers of color, used his fingers to drip and splatter paint, even dumped paint right out of the can.

Pollock once said, "When I'm in my painting, I'm not even aware of what I'm doing. ...the painting has a life of its own." Some people thought Pollock's paintings were just a big mess, but others looked carefully and discovered beautiful patterns and feelings in the chaos of imxed colors

" Convergence "

* pieces of the text were taken from http://www.kidsart.com/IS/427.html

Spyros Panagiotopoulos

Spiros Panagiotopoulos was born in Kalamata at 1957. He lived at 

Sinai and Egypt, where he met his teacher in photography, Platonas Rivellis.

He lived for 2 years in Cyprus and the USA and since 1995 he lives in Athens.

He works as a photographer of Byzantine antiquities and of works of art.

The Greek House

Costas Plakotaris

"Road in Mykonos"

Oil and tempera on hardboard

Christodoulos Galdemis

"Metsovo 1999"

copper engraving, etching, aquatint

Alexandros Christofis

"View of Skyros:

oil on canvas

Greek arhitecture has not only influenced architects from all over the world,

but has also influenced many greek or non greek artists.

These few examples present 

various types of greek houses which manage to fit

 within the scenery that hosts them.

Using several technics ( such as oil or tempera on canvas )

 these greek artists  have

managed to imprint the feeling of these places onto a paper, with a romantic and cheerful way.

Petros Pahatouridis

Santorini

oil on canvas

Ioannis Sifneos

"Tavern in Zakynthos"

oil on canvas

Paris Prekas

"Hydra island"

tempera on paper

Giannoulis Chalepas

Sleeping Girl (marble)

1878

Angel Seated (marble)

1875

Giannoulis Chalepas was born in Tinos in the 14th of August of 1851

and died in the 15th of September of 1938, in Athens. 

He is the most distinguished sculpturer of modern

Greece  with a fictional life, between madness and triumph.

The fairy tail of the Beauty II

(Cultural foundation of Tinos)

Affection (plaster)

1875

(Cultural foundation of Tinos)

Giannoulis Chalepas was, and remains, a leading figure in the modern Greek art.

His work (from which 150 pieces were saved)  is characterized 

by its classic conceptions. The element that could be appreciated by even 

the most ignorant observer, is the expressions of the face's and the bodies

 of Chalepa's sculptures, either he represents a Satyr, or Medea with her

children, or even a young sleeping girl. For this reason Giannoulis Chalepas 

can stand as equal next to the great Roden.

Large reposing female figure (plaster)

1931

Head of Ariadne (plaster)

before 1925

(Cultural foundation of Tinos)

Angeliki Douveri

" Another Cosmos "

Angeliki Douveri was born in Athens in 1974. She has

studied Photography at the University of Athens (TEI) as well as at Ecole

Superieure Artistique Le "75" in Brussels.

She has a master's degree on photgraphy from the University of Westminster, London

 and was awarded a prize at the Lauderdale House contest in 2002.

Her first solo exhibition was Gulliver in Europe and was presented during the 

14th International Month of  Photography in Athens

in October, 2007. She has participated in many European art exhibitions 

and festivals, presenting both photography and video art.