Giorgos Ioannou

Greek artist

Giorgos Ioannou
Γιώργος Ιωάννου
Born	(1926-12-10)10 December 1926 Athens
Died	13 February 2017(2017-02-13) (aged 90) Athens
Nationality	Greek
Movement	Pop Art

Giorgos (also mentioned as Yorgos or Georges) Ioannou (1926 – 2017)^[1] was a Greek artist born in Athens. He is considered to have been one of the main representatives of the Pop Art movement in Greece.

In his work by adopting the main aspects of pop art and utilizing the techniques employed by comic books, he turned to satirizing social and political reality, creating compositions with a surrealistic atmosphere and symbolic allusions.^[2]

References

^ "Πέθανε ο ζωγράφος και χαράκτης Γιώργος Ιωάννου". In.gr. Retrieved 2017-02-14.
^ "National gallery". nationalgallery.gr. Archived from the original on 2015-05-24. Retrieved 2015-05-24.

National Gallery, Greece Giorgos Ioannou
iset - Contemporary Greek Art Institute - Giorgos Ioannou
Αρχείο Τ. Σπητέρη - Φάκελοι Καλλιτεχνών, Γιώργος Ιωάννου^{[permanent dead link]} , Τελλόγλειο Ίδρυμα Τεχνών, Α.Π.Θ.
Π.Δ.Καγκελάρη, Γιώργος Ιωάννου Αναζητήσεις στη Σύγχρονη Ελληνική Ζωγραφική - Η Συλλογή Καγκελάρη, τόμ.2, Έκδοση πρώτη, Αθήνα 1999, ISBN 960-85532-1-0
Λεξικό Ελλήνων Καλλιτεχνών, τόμος 2, (Θ-Λ), Zωγράφοι-Γλύπτες-Χαράκτες, 16ος - 20ός αιώνας (εκδ.Μέλισσα 2000) ISBN 960-204-226-5
Giorgos / Georges Ioannou (official site) [1]

External links

Giorgos Ioannou National Gallery
iset - Contemporary Greek Art Institute - Giorgos Ioannou
Αρχείο Τ. Σπητέρη - Φάκελοι Καλλιτεχνών - Γιώργος Ιωάννου^{[permanent dead link]}
CONTEMPORARY GREEK PAINTING THE CANGELARIS COLLECTION
Exhibition "Giorgos Ioannou, Album 1940-1974" (BCU, November 2016-January 2017)
Giorgos Ioannou (official site)