Life is what happens to you, while you're busy making other plans (John Lennon)
I started my cooperation with Artflakes.com.... If you want my works in poster, on canvas etc go to Artflakes and order it...
For example go to : www.artflakes.com/en/pr… buy "Parthenogenesis"
Soon most of my past artwork and paintings will be there....
Past news....
My third D.D.!!!! And it is my signature piece!!!! Already in the Vorres Museum of Modern Art... An Oil painting on linen Canvas that attracted many deviants before it got this prestigious title of a D.D.!!!
My Parthenogenesis
Thanks a thousand times the one that suggested it AND the one that featured it!!!! (Suggested by
and Featured by snowmask )I feel honored and moved!!!! And always near my birthday on 23th November!!!! Thanks again!!!
AND, AS ALWAYS WHEN I GET A D.D., THE PERVERT HIT!!! THE DROP OF LIFE WAS REPORTED AS MATURE BY THE IMMATURE PERVERT!!! MY DEAR PERVERT, ONE THING IS FOR SURE!!! YOU WILL NOT LEARN TO PAINT AND YOU WILL NEVER LEARN TO APPRECIATE ART!!! AND STAY AWAY FROM THE MUSEUMS... THEY ARE FULL OF "MATURE" ART!!!!
THE PORTFOLIO!!! What a feature!!!!
here it is:
tassoskouris.daportfolio.com
My third visit to Barcelona was quite memorable!!! It will stay to my mind....
Thanks people!!! 40000 in 2 and a half years for an obscure surrealist painter!!! Thanks again DA people!!!
And a fabulous gift from
!!! : Visit her page... she has the most fertile imagination and talent!!!Also an early birthday present (my birthday is on November 23) from my beloved
Heartful thanks my Roser!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!November Stuff: Artificial Insemination... Balancing possibilities...
October Stuff: A pencil drawing... Thanks to Mr. Spielberg and the film Artificial Intelligence, I found my title... My Mecha Love... My Mechanical Love...
The way love tends to be nowadays...
Me, I am an old fashioned man... Love the machines but preferring flesh, blood and soul relationships...
September Stuff: Keepers of Chastity... Our chastity...
Dedicated for those "immature people" who keep our chastity intact... even by force... even when we do not wish it so...
I am afraid my friends this not a "mature" image... But on the other hand it is more mature that you imagine...
Not a breast or nipple showing... The snakes that keep our chastity, made sure of that...
June Stuff:
After the Psychopomp's visit... A small oil painting...
depicting a possible aftermath of my painting "The Psychopomp"..
A certain memory, a breeze of air, a wavering note of music...
The remains of a life ... A life that brings a new clear day...
This painting stands by it's own... but it can also be seen side by side with the Psychopomp...
July Stuff: Do not expect always the appropriate resident, not in the house, not in your mind...
August Stuff: Summer Vespers, memories of summers past, of innocence and hopes...
Thanks
- the famous surreal club in dA - for the recent feature that includes works of mine here the-surreal-arts.deviantart.co… Thanks also my dearest friends that include my paintings in the collections and features in their journals....
Featured in this wonderful collection on News article "Talented Artists" Part 19 news.deviantart.com/article/69… by
Very apt to the past Christmas season, my "Lightbearer" featured here news.deviantart.com/article/65… by
, for the twelve Days of Christmas in dA!!!! ..............................................................................................
My Interview
I decide to post some points of my interview to AnnaKirsten and DWALKER1047(August 2007) in order to introduce myself to Deviants who do not know me...
Do you have any formal training as an artist?
Well… You have to keep in mind that after WW2 Corfu (the Greek island, were I was born and raised) was, (in fact all Greece was) very poor and trying to rebuild her dilapidated former glory in Music (Opera especially) and Art in general… To have ambition to have Painting as a solo profession at that time was a ticket to poverty… My father, a man with good education in Music (Maybe the best baritone the island of Corfu produced) did not have art as a profession, and as a pro-education but practical man, wanted his son to have a profession that would always put bread on his table..
So for him painting was to be my lover, but Medicine my wife… I went to an Art school we had then in Corfu, that worked in the afternoons while in the mornings we attended normal school education… There I learned the discipline of classical drawing by teachers to whom I am still grateful… And nothing more, not color, not freedom of expression… After school, I went to Athens to be a Doctor… I finished medical school with most excellent grades (sketching all the time) and decided to specialize in Ophthalmology to serve Vision… Vision that in turn can be used to appreciate ART… And during my studies in Medicine, I had my first book on Magritte, then Ernst and then DALI…
I found my paradise… Color for me was then an absolute necessity… I started reading books on painting techniques, mediums, oil colors, watercolors etc… I self educated myself doing 2 paintings in the size of the originals… One of Greco and another of Velásquez's , mimicking their way of using colors and brushes and then I started my own oil paintings…
Wild things at first, paintings overloaded with symbolisms and meanings as if there would not be another painting…
Later I calmed down, one theme one idea at a time… I started exhibiting to the premier Gallery of Greece, at that time, ZYGOS… Most of my paintings were sold immediately…
Thinking that all my painting life was in front of me, I even had not photographed each painting that was sold… The "catalogue résonnais" was far from my mind.. Pity, many - many paintings are now lost to me and I try to remember the owners so I can take a snapshot of them … The recklessness of youth!
What software do you normally use for preparing a work for display on the internet?
CS3.
Do you have a preference for the type of picture you like to create?
The whole image comes instantaneously to my mind… As a whole. As a real Dreamscape… Then starts the refinement, but not the betrayal of the initial idea… The backdrop (usually my beloved Corfu), the composition, the meticulous under painting, the main painting and last, the lights…
Can you give a brief overview of the various techniques you use?
In oil paintings, classical almost Flemish, execution "lege artis";
In watercolor experimenting new methods;
In sketching mostly graphite and carbon.
What sort of things inspire your artwork?
Visual and mental inputs… When an image comes I don't question it… I put it on paper as a fast sketch, and if the next day it still talks to me then the adventure, small or big, starts…
Do you have any advice for aspiring artists?
Learn the essential from your teachers, then open your wings… Don't be a slave of your teacher and don't reject him either… Use him as a step, so you can climb toward your own imagination…
And be kind in your critique to other artists… A bravo tends to push an artist upwards, if he is really honest in his work..
Do you have any future plans for diversifying your artwork?
My future plans are to find time for painting, because Hippocrates holds the muse by the neck…
Medicine is a very demanding wife and Art, my eternal mistress suffers lately…
Is there anything else you'd like to add about what you do?
Art is a need for creation… There is not Parthenogenesis in Art… But advances, variations, oppositions, diversifications…
There are shining minds and talents, but even the little stars have their merit in the constellation of Art.
I didn't notice this earlier, since I was busy and haven't been around here much lately, but I suppose it's better late than never.