KONSTANTINOS GRAMMATOPOULOS
PAINTER - ENGRAVER - PRINTMAKER
Konstantinos
Grammatopoulos is the engraver and painter of the Aegean Sea and Greek
Mythology. Honest and straightforward, he worked with modesty and
sensitivity, giving his artworks, balance, lyricism and poetic expression.
His artistic creation enriched the traditional Greek engraving with new
expressive meanings. Utilizing color woodcut, lithography and etching, he
offered a new dimension to Greek engraving, renewing it and pushing it in
new directions.
Apart from his personal expertise, he succeeded, particularly in woodcut, to incorporate new techniques and simpler materials.
His color
palette is distinguished by the important role of white, which provides
large, bright areas, and other colors, with a particular preference for
earthy colors, blue, green and gray. His works are distinguished by clarity
of atmosphere and bright light. The deep blue of the Aegean Sea, the emerald
green and cobalt blue of the Ionian Sea, all the colors of Greek waters, are
displayed, through the work of the artist, in a lively conversation with
Greek nature.
His multidimensional work was inspired by the people of Greece, by the ancient Greek gods and mythology, the Greek tradition, the Greek architecture, the sky, the winds, the waves, the rocks and, of course, the Apollonian Greek light, the primordial and primary source of life.
Turning his
attention to the Greek landscape, Konstantinos Grammatopoulos created
artworks flooded by the Greek light. "Delphi", "Mani", "Sounion", "Hydra",
"Aegean" are some of the themes of his work.
Painter in engraving and Engraver in painting, Grammatopoulos enriched Greek art with his works and his influential teaching.