If you are an ardent art lover, you just cannot miss Makroulakis: Images in Harmony 1956-2013 in Greece presented by the B & M Theocharakis Foundation for the Fine Arts and Music until June 14, 2013.Sensuality in painting is the dominant feature of Michael Makroulakis’ photorealist work. Michael Makroulakis is a painter who is deeply in the know of the secrets of miniature painting and a staunch supporter of visual aesthetic beauty, of the essence in things as well as of expressiveness; he is considered to be one of the few European painters of that kind.
For Makroulakis, beauty is defined by the indisputable concepts of perfection, harmony and clarity. A bunch of poppies painted by Makroulakis is “as if whatever is conceived by the sense of sight is then transformed into a tactile experience”, as Angelos Delivorias, Director of the Benaki Museum in Athens, points out.The clarity of his technique adds an indelible mark on the familiar work of a sensual visual world.
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