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Ioannis (Yannis) Moralis (Greek: Γιάννης Μώραλης, born in 1968 in Athens) is the current Mayor of Piraeus, Greece and Vice President of Olympiacos F.C. He was elected Mayor in May 2014 and took office in September of that year.
Yiannis Moralis (Greek: Γιάννης Μόραλης; also transliterated Yannis Moralis or Giannis Moralis; 23 April 1916 – 20 December 2009) was an important Greek visual artist and part of the so-called "Generation of the '30s".
Nov 9, 2018 · An exhibition we saw in Athens two months ago. Yannis Moralis, a retrospective, at the Benaki Museum, Pireos Avenue, Athens. ...
- Beginnings
- The Greek Avant-Garde
- Early Figurative Works
- Towards Abstraction
Moralis was born on 23 April 1916 in Arta, a small city in north western Greece where he lived with his family until they moved to Athens in 1927. By then, Moralis had already decided that he wanted to be an artist and had enrolled at the preparatory Sunday school of the Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA). He was accepted as a full-time student at A...
Back in Athens, the young Moralis made a living by putting his figurative painting skills to good use and securing portrait commissions. He also joined the cultural avant-garde of the country: a loose group that gathered writers, poets and visual artists under the banner of the “Generation of the 1930s”. This group was key in the development of Gre...
In 1949, seeking to test and expand the possibilities of figurative painting, Moralis set up the Armos Art Group, accompanied by his long-standing friends and colleagues Tsarouchis, Engonopoulos and Hadjikyriakos-Ghika. During this time, one of the recurrent motifs in Moralis’ output was the female nude. His detailed studies of the female form can ...
From the late 1950s onwards, Moralis started to incorporate abstraction into his figurative compositions. This was a gradual shift, an early example of which is his 1960 painting Composition, which combines figurative and abstract elements in blue, pink and grey shades. The work confronts the viewer with an enigmatic scene which could be interprete...
Aug 19, 2011 · It was during the same year that Yannis Moralis made a generous donation of 113 of his works to the National Gallery. One year after his death, our museum felt that a meaningful overview of the donation in its entirety was due as a tribute to the great artist.
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Politics. In May 2014, Moralis was elected Mayor of Piraeus, running as an independent candidate, without endorsement by any political party. His associates include both conservatives and socialists, as well as many former Olympiacos executives.
