12 Paintings by Photini Stephanidi
In Greek, English and French
16 pages
In four different covers
The introduction by Iphigenia Mastrogianni:
"With their wonderful and highly individual range of linear design and colour tones, their very personal “morphoplastic vocabulary” as it were, the twelve pictures in Photini Stephanidi's “The Months” go to make up a work that is poetical in character.
What makes the deepest impression is that all the emphasis is placed on the spirituality of the figures, which breathe out pure allusiveness.
The faces, familiar and yet far removed from us, transform the colour and expression into a mystical communion which is deeply free and entirely confessional.
The earthy, shaded tones of the background colours unite the months into a continuous, uninterrupted whole that reflects the calm and gentle ideals of the painter.
The few themes added to round off the compositions – fruit waiting to be eaten, flowers and foliage playing with the wind – provide a setting for the basic figures, faces that look directly in our eyes or off into the distance, secure in their enigmatic silence, and leaving us to see in their eyes our own self, with its dreams and hopes, its joy or hidden sorrow.
In Greek, English and French
16 pages
In four different covers
The introduction by Iphigenia Mastrogianni:
"With their wonderful and highly individual range of linear design and colour tones, their very personal “morphoplastic vocabulary” as it were, the twelve pictures in Photini Stephanidi's “The Months” go to make up a work that is poetical in character.
What makes the deepest impression is that all the emphasis is placed on the spirituality of the figures, which breathe out pure allusiveness.
The faces, familiar and yet far removed from us, transform the colour and expression into a mystical communion which is deeply free and entirely confessional.
The earthy, shaded tones of the background colours unite the months into a continuous, uninterrupted whole that reflects the calm and gentle ideals of the painter.
The few themes added to round off the compositions – fruit waiting to be eaten, flowers and foliage playing with the wind – provide a setting for the basic figures, faces that look directly in our eyes or off into the distance, secure in their enigmatic silence, and leaving us to see in their eyes our own self, with its dreams and hopes, its joy or hidden sorrow.
“These months, how deep they dig into the soul!
How unexpectedly the hoe strikes at the roots.”"
How unexpectedly the hoe strikes at the roots.”"