Prints and sculpture

This section includes works of prints and sculpture with a strong sense of realism and social awareness.

Prints works, like those in painting, range from academic to modern and experimental approaches, capturing personal perspectives and offering social commentary. A special place is held by the woodcuts of Nikolas (Pavlopoulos), which explore a variety of themes such as landscapes, scenes of everyday life, still life’s, and social issues-a practice shared by other artists as well. These works are marked by a strong sense of realism and naturalism, deliberately avoiding idealization of the subject matter. The posture of the figures and the intentional omission of facial features may reflect the artist’s particular attitude toward rural subjects. In contrast, the work “Mortis” (Street Tough) carries a different tone. Here, Pavlopoulos includes more detail and distinctive features in an effort to portray the emotional world of the depicted figure.

Sculpture is the art of artistic creation and expression that connects emotion with inanimate matter (stone, marble, metal, clay, or various plastics in contemporary sculpture). In antiquity, it was very widespread, and the surviving statues from various periods demonstrate the high level of technical skill possessed by sculptors in ancient Greece. During the postwar period, Greek sculpture became the art of the object, and sculptors moved from representational forms to various versions of expressionism and abstraction – from cubism to surrealism and kinetic sculpture.