Socrate Sidiropoulos

Sokratis Sidiropoulos (Greek Σωκράτης Σιδηρόπουλος, also Socrate Sidiropoulos transcribed; * March 9, 1947 in Attica, Greece) is a Greek painter and sculptor.

Life

His mother taught him drawing iconography, frescoes and mosaics. He was a student of the master sculptor Ossip Zadkine and studied sculpture with the white marble pentelischen with the sculptor Costas Valsamis. Western painting, he studied with the painters Zoe Valsamis and Philopoemen Constantinidi at the École nationale supérieure des beaux -arts de Paris. He completed his studies at the Académie then de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris.

The cave of Cappadocia icons, frescoes and mosaics led him to classical painting. Impressed by bullfighting, he painted the portraits of the great matadors Manolete, Nimeño II, Paquirri and others. Fascinated by bullfights, he created a series of bullfighting scenes. Attracted by the flamenco music and the urban environment of Seville, he painted several flamenco scenes.

Work

  • Paintings, The Artist and his room, communal Musée des Beaux-Arts d' Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium.
  • Paintings, Oriental Portrait, Göteborgs konstmuseum, Gothenburg, Sweden.
  • Paintings, Manolete, Museo de Arte de El Salvador, El Salvador.
  • Paintings, Suleiman the Magnificent, Pushkin Museum, Moscow, Russia.
  • Painting, La Vuelta ( Nimeno II), Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Les Villas des Pins, Monaco.
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