Folk Games . [Painting] / Hatzikyriakos-Ghika Nikos

Artists:	Hatzikyriakos-Ghika Nikos (1906 - 1994)
Κατηγορία Υλικού:	Ζωγραφική
Γλώσσα:	English
Χρονολογία:	1937
Διαθέσιμο Online:	https://www.nationalgallery.gr/en/artwork/folk-games/
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Περιγραφή τεκμηρίου:	Folk Toys" is a tribute to the simple yet charming and inspired toys of lower-class children. Made of petty materials - paper, wood, clay - and imaginatively coloured, they were in no way inferior to the mechanical or porcelain toys of upper-class children, of which a member was the painter himself. An abacus, a wooden guitar hanging on the wall, a flowery Aegina vase, a cardboard mask, an acrobat performing his balancing act on top of a multicolour column, and other humble yet beautiful objects lie on array on the table - enter the magical world of a Greek child of old. Yet, all this is not enough to make such an enchanting and poetical a painting as this. How did the artist achieve this magical effect? By using a luminous colour palette without any use of chiaroscuro, that is, without contrasts of highlight and shade. Colourful objects project light greenish shades against a wall painted in light bluish green. The entire scene seems to be like lingering nostalgia - the lost innocence of childhood revisited as if in a dream.
Φυσική περιγραφή:	53 x 40 cm [Oil on canvas]
Προέλευση:	Donated by the Ministry of Education
Αριθμός Καταλόγου:	Π.2898