Apostolos Art
“Art is nothing more than a gift,
which enables us to see something beyond the Reason.”
Month: August 2004
NYT Editorial/Op-Ed, August 31, 2004
ats off to Greece for running a Summer Olympics that defied all the dire predictions. The facilities were completed on time, no terrorists showed up to wreak havoc, the anticipated traffic jams failed to materialize, and the main glitches, such as judging disputes in several sports, were hardly the fault of the host country. Greece showed that a small country could indeed play host to this massive quadrennial extravaganza. The
achievement raises anew the question of whether Greece, where the Games originated, should be made the permanent site of the Summer Olympics, thus ending the road show that moves the Olympics to whatever city submits the most compelling bid for the next go-round…. >>
Fotini, 10 years-old, carries a lantern with the light taken from the cauldron
flame during the closing ceremonies of the Athens 2004 Summer Olympic Games on August 29
"Let’s party with the god of love.."
Stomping the grapes
Dancers perform as traditional Greek grape harvesters..
Harvesting the crop
Dancers perform as traditional Greek harvesters through a spiral wheatfield
made up of 45,000 individually ‘planted’ stalks. In Greek festivities, wheat
symbolizes the fertility of the earth, the awakening of life that arises from
death.
Playing with fire
A dancer leaps over fires in an allegorical performance of a wheat harvest
during the closing ceremony
Ooops …”We were wrong.
Greece overcame the world’s paranoia to stage a glorious Games” by Rick Riley
“Dear Athens,
Well, we feel bad. We really owe you an apology.
So, sygnomi, as you would say. Sorry.
Sorry the way we acted. We were paranoid and stupid and just flat out wrong. Our bad. If you want, we’ll sleep on the couch…>> [ Oh really? ha ha..]
Kot Valery Paintings
..The concept of artist’s work is uncontrolled play of subconscious associations, philosophy and inscrutability of the images and themes, connection of natural with surreal, reality with fiction. Artist trying to convey that there are eternal values facing absurd and chaos of our being……
"Song of the South Wind" Oil on canvas
"Golden Apple of Endless Time"
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Levin Alex Paintings
Venice Through the Masks’ Eyes 3
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Mick Art 