Solitude
Artist
Thaleia Flora-Karavia
(1871 - 1960 )
Date1907-12
MediumOil on cardboard
Dimensions46.8 x 32.3 cm
Collection No411
DescriptionA powerful expressiveness
and search for a personal idiom can be found in the art of Thaleia
Flora-Karavia, who built on the teachings of the Munich School, engrafting into
them her distinctive drawing skill and moment-capturing sensitivity. Her "Solitude",
reproducing an everyday scene from the life of her father-in-law, Τzortzis
(Georgios) Karavias, conveys precisely this awareness and aptitude to visually
express the emotional mood of the moment. The dark tones of the room, the scant
atmospheric light, the closed composition, all echo the subject’s inner world
and absorption in his thoughts, with his personality almost diffusing into the
surroundings, in such as a way that the latter may be perceived as emanating
and even extending from the former.