The Image L
Artist
Jannis Spyropoulos
(1912 - 1990 )
Date1969
MediumMixed media on paper mounted on canvas, affixed on cardboard
Dimensions43.5 x 28 cm
Collection No1159
DescriptionMoving
deeper in the abstract idiom, Jannis Spyropoulos creates a series of
characteristic works like "The Image L", flinging himself into a gestural
painting that is austere in its structure and full of inner power thanks to his
treatment of colour, the rendering and the obscuring of light, and the
incorporation of symbolic elements. The “locus” thus configured has the
structure of a deliberate, internal layering where painting, material and
colour inlays, as well as the corrosion of matter, determine the substance of
the image.