Collection
The B. & M. Theocharakis Foundation for the Fine Arts and Music houses a representative collection of works by Spyros Papaloukas. It is considered the largest collection of works by the great painter and it includes significant paintings and sketches from all the main periods of Papaloukas’ career. Most of the works have been donated to the Foundation in 2006 by the painter’s daughter, Mina Papalouka, aiming at maintaining and promoting her father’s oeuvre.
The Theocharakis Foundation collection includes works from the painter’s early years as a student in Athens and Paris, portraits and self-portraits, still lifes and landscapes depicting Aegina, Salamina, Paros, Antiparos, Mytilene, Hydra and Mt Athos. The body of over 600 works includes oils, watercolours, charcoal sketches, india ink, and pencil, mechanicals from the Amfissa Church of Annunciation, the Tegeas Archepiscopate, the church of the Law School (now the 8th secondary school of Athens) and the Heraklion Archaeological Museum in Crete. These magnificent works reveal the breadth of the artist’s thematic choices throughout his life, they uncover hidden dimensions of the ancient Greek and Byzantine world and unfold Papaloukas’ influence upon the younger generations of artists.
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drawings
The works of Spyros Papaloukas narrate his artistic career and reflect a color harmony, an expressive austerity, the Greek light and the artist’s love for the Greek countryside. Still lifes, portraits and landscapes outline the creative path of Papaloukas which testifies his love for the Greek topography, the Byzantine art, the harmonious lines and pointillism.
“Papaloukas’ path is a spiritual feat, an ascent towards self-knowledge and self-transcendence”.
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works
The works on paper by Spyros Papaloukas reflect the morphological and aesthetic elements of his inner, Byzantine (and post-Byzantine), architectural and artistic pursuits. His works link the conquests of plein-airism with the synthetic principles of architecture. Papaloukas, with his drawings and his infinite variations of Byzantine figures or representations, paved the way for traditional painting.
