DR. GEORGE KOEMTZOPOULOS
D r. George Koemtzopoulos paints into the unknown with bravado and confidence. His work breathes into the viewer, granting visions of untravelled psychic spaces and hidden corners of the imagination. Koemt-zopoulos’s canvases are worlds of color and light; his painterly brushwork and sensual compositions are both vivacious and dreamy. His work has been praised by art critics as displaying “boldness and imagination;” his colors described as “phantasmagoric,” and his overall aesthetic sense inspiring “mental euphoria.”
Koemtzopoulos merits this praise from viewers and art critics alike, in part because of his ability to touch the viewer’s imagination and inspire questioning and wonder. He has been called “a preacher of aesthetic freedom” by art critics because, as some have said, “he does not impose in his paintings something certain, fi­nal, or concrete. He waits for the spectator to give the form.” The loose brushwork and the undetermined scene allow space for the viewers mind to wander, yet his intense colors and layering of shapes and lines ar­rests our attention and sustains our interest.
The attraction of his paintings lies in the combina­tion of its obvious decorative beauty and its roots in Abstract Expressionism. These works are introspective without being remote and they are aesthetically pleas­ing without losing their substance.
Koemtzopoulos, a retired civil engineer who taught at the National Technical University of Athens, started painting in 1966. While only embarking on a serious painting career two years ago, his work has already been bought by public and private institutions and widely displayed. Koemtzopoulos sites nature as one of his primary inspirations. Another source, he says, is to “enter deep meditation and to imagine that I use the techniques of a great painter of the future, and that I am on another planet, where I watch with my imagina­tion the curious landscapes and creatures that live there, which later I try to include in my work.” Dr. George Koemtzopoulos has exhibited his work throughout his native Greece and abroad, where he has been well re­ceived and awarded for his artistic endeavors. Website:http://www.artmine.com/ArtistPage/Dr._ George_Koemtzopoulos.aspx
Portal to another dimension Mixed Media on Canvas 40”x 30”
Gods in a planet of Sirius Mixed Media on Canvas 30”x 40”