Harmony
Artist
Nikolaos Gyzis
(1842 - 1901 )
Date1893
MediumChalk and charcoal on paper
Dimensions39.5 x 26.5 cm
Collection No245
Description
The
perceptions of light and colour that Gyzis developed in his late period are
visible in a sketch entitled "Harmony", inspired by the ancient world.
Here, too, the allegorical figure —a personification in an obvious likeness of
some figure from antiquity— reflects the artist’s idealistic tendencies.
Seated, holding a cithara and plectrum, the female figure is modelled after
patterns found in ancient Greek vase-painting. Her fluttering clothes are
suggestive of a breeze that seems to blow the figure away from conventional
typology and into the real world.