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 He is another of the consummate
creators born at the beginning of the century. He is an
artist who is interested less in the artistic styles of
other periods or the solutions offered by contemporary
Western European art, and more in his own inner
relationship with his art, as we see in the way he
portrays his subjects. Especially gifted in his
technique, Moralis insists on depicting the human body
realistically, and he succeeds in this thanks to the
discipline and the faith present in his means of
expression. Thus, in Seated Nude (1952) what impresses
one immediately is the exact design, the deep
understanding of chromatic relationships, the studied
rendering of the model’s movement, as well as the
balanced nature of the whole composition. In Votanikos,
one of his earliest works of the 1930’s, we see the
way in which he explored the function of color, before
reaching his more  mature
works, such as Seated Nude. Moralis later progressed on
to the geometric abstraction of the figure, and for
decades his teaching at the Athens School of Fine Art was
decisive for many of Greek post-war artists. |
