01672nam a2200205Ia 4500001001100000100003400011101000800045200004400053210000900097215003200106300103000138608001401168650001101182700009401193801000701287856005701294857009001351909001201441991001301453Π.6405eng  a20140611d9999 m y0grey0103 ga  aeng1 aTwo Girlsb[Sculpture]fLameras Lazaros  d1950  a171 x 59,5 x 65 cm [Marble]  aUntil the late 1940s, the human figure and the figurative approach all but monopolised the attention of Greek sculptors. Nevertheless, although some remained committed to the academic approach, or to the post-Rodin French school style, others increasingly turned towards more simplified and abstract shapes, each shaping his personal style through various influences by the European avant-garde. Thus, they approached the human figure with a new perception, which led to a diversity of treatments: simplified, or completely stylised and suggestive, fragmentary, or expressionistic.In the National Gallery collection, the work that marks the shift towards the abstracted, allusive rendition of the human figure, in what is in fact one of the most "extreme" examples, while also ushering in the 1950s, is "Two Girls" by Lazaros Lameras. Reminiscent of Cycladic figurines, the two girls are upright, stylised and almost two-dimensional, retaining only the basic elements of female body forms, reaching the limits of abstraction.  aSculpture  aMarble 1aLameras Lazarosf(1913 - 1998)uhttps://www.nationalgallery.gr/en/artist/lameras-lazaros/  a58  uhttps://www.nationalgallery.gr/en/artwork/two-girls/  ahttps://www.nationalgallery.gr/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/65501_2000_2000-500x860.jpg  aΠ.6405  aPAINTING