Artist of the day: Artist of the Day, May 25, 2021: Chryssa Romanos, a Greek painter, monotype collage & décollage, sculptor, and silkscreen artist (#1292)

Tuesday, May 25, 2021

Artist of the Day, May 25, 2021: Chryssa Romanos, a Greek painter, monotype collage & décollage, sculptor, and silkscreen artist (#1292)

Chryssa Romanos (1931-2006) was an important proponent of the expatriate Greek post-war avant-garde, a number of whom settled in Paris in the 1960s and 1970s. Romanos lived in France from 1961-1981 and this afforded her with the opportunity to dialogue with the current artistic trends of the time, and more specifically with the Nouveaux Realistes, who were very influential for some of the generation of Greek artists born in the 1930. Yet Chrysa developed her own style, and the content of her work very often went before the primarily formal concerns of the movement, also engaging in a stringent socio-political critique of the crises of the day.

It was during the two decades in France that she developed her artistic temperament and met her future companion, artist Nikos Kessanlis. As she spent time in Western art capitals during the post-war period, she is part of a movement of Greek artists who influenced the formation of international artistic movements. Chrysa’s oeuvre spanned several media, including also: painting, monotype collage & décollage, sculpture, and silkscreen.

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