Artist Of The Month For August 2022 - Aristotle Solounias
Aristotle Solounias. Seascape. Oil on canvas. 28x35 c“He said and taught that being an artist is a way of life, a modus vivendi.”
A very deep and profound statement by our artist of the month, Aristotle Solounias (1939 - 2009), who was a sculptor and painter. Emitting the sound of husky waves and creating flimsy layers of conscience, his paintings abstract the physical and melt them into the essence of the beyond. His masterpieces, despite working with several elements, become an ode to the mysterious quality of nature.
Aristotle Solounias. Abstract Figure. Oil on canvas. 22x35 cm.
Aristotle Solounias. Perseus. Oil on canvas. 24x37 cm.Solounias was born in Athens, Greece in 1939 while having been raised near the foothills of the Acropolis at Plaka. In 1957, before the completion of his master's, he received a BFA degree from Cornell University in the US, where he later served as assistant director of the Andrew White museum.
Solounias is known for his Pythagorean Academy of Fine Arts, which he founded in 1972 on the island of Samos. Not only was he selected for several reputed high-scale sculptural projects but was also covered by the media extensively.
Solounias paintings highlight an impeccable maturity of application- a sheer sense of boldness and fearlessness. Interestingly, one realises that the forms are in between the process of losing their identity or acquiring them.
Aristotle Solounias. Still Nature. Oil on canvas. 40x60 cm.Solounias's artworks have been exhibited widely and collected by international museums and galleries.
The display of private collections of his works has also been held in the U.S.A and many European countries including the Netherlands, France, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, the U.K, Cyprus as well as Australia and Saudi Arabia.