1959, Theodoros Stamos, Corinth #3, Explorers of Space -- Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond)
From the museum label:
"Through nature, this is my discovery; joy, even happiness, at finding something which I want to look at." -Theodoros Stamos
Only twenty-two when he had his first solo exhibition, Stamos was the youngest artist to participate in the development of abstract expressionism in the 1940s. While nature remained the most important inspiration for his paintings, he insisted that one's visual understanding of the physical world is in fact preconceived by the mind. His paintings therefore present an inner vision, rather than a descriptive representation, of natural phenomenon. The bright, warm palette of the Aegean seashore, which he saw on a trip to Greece in the late 1940s, inspired his use of vibrant colors, such as the yellow in Corinth #3, while his layered brushwork suggests a sense of diffuse, atmospheric light.
1959, Theodoros Stamos, Corinth #3, Explorers of Space -- Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond)
From the museum label:
"Through nature, this is my discovery; joy, even happiness, at finding something which I want to look at." -Theodoros Stamos
Only twenty-two when he had his first solo exhibition, Stamos was the youngest artist to participate in the development of abstract expressionism in the 1940s. While nature remained the most important inspiration for his paintings, he insisted that one's visual understanding of the physical world is in fact preconceived by the mind. His paintings therefore present an inner vision, rather than a descriptive representation, of natural phenomenon. The bright, warm palette of the Aegean seashore, which he saw on a trip to Greece in the late 1940s, inspired his use of vibrant colors, such as the yellow in Corinth #3, while his layered brushwork suggests a sense of diffuse, atmospheric light.