City
Artist
Spyros Vassiliou
(1903 - 1985 )
Date1965
MediumTriptych, acrylic and paper on particleboard
Dimensions54.5 x 211.5 cm (54.5 x 69.5 cm each)
Collection No710
DescriptionIn
the "City", structured as a triptych, Athens is easily recognisable from
its landmarks – the Temple of Olympian Zeus, the Zappeion Hall and the Fix
brewery are discernible – in a contemporary setting. With a descriptive, yet
abstract vocabulary in the rendering of forms, Vassiliou gives the pulse of the
city in a realistic and miniaturist approach, amid the hues of twilight. The
city is depicted without its people, densely built, with night about to fall,
as suggested by the silvery band of lights at the foot of Mount Hymettus.