I
began working on the Greek mythology for which I based my subject matter
on written documents as well as art involving architectures, sculptures
and vases. At that time, I was not sure of the space that these mythological
themes would take up on my large painting roll of canvas. When I realized
that I had just entered the vast labyrinth of Greek mythology, I decided
to offshoot and treat this subject as separate topic collection. After
I had made many paintings on Greek mythology, I thought that I would one
day publish a book dedicated specifically for this subject. 
Many themes were of particular interest to me. Specifically because of
the movement of human beings, horses, birds and various other animals.
I made a great number of paintings on particular subjects such as Leda
and the Swan, Hercules, Prometheus, Poseidon as well as the remarkable
Amazons. If I placed in the book numerous themes on the same subject,
it is because each painting is different from the other. I always believed
that the same subject can always be repainted, if the work is composed
differently. I simply regret that I have not yet painted so many other
themes. However, I made a new series of paintings in the attempt to fill
the gaps. And because the theme of Greek mythology has proven to be vast,
there does not seem to be an end. Some additional remarks on my work:
Very often, I was executing some non-figurative paintings, I perceived
some movements and motifs, slowly upon which appeared figures which were
barely noticeable.
As in my books on Byzantine Art and the Olympic games, I took out numerous
such paintings in order to prevent the viewers from looking for themes
and people which may have been represented in paintings. I admit that
I myself have trouble deciphering these. I did however leave some of these
paintings in my two books, the ones with the most "visible" figures and
titles them as "with" as such "Abstract painting with this or that subject
or theme". Just as in my abstract non-figurative paintings, movements
and "explosions" are strong that it is not difficult to distinguish forms
and figures, unlike that seen in Byzantine art, which is more or less
"static" and which I kept in line with its long tradition. Despite this,
I did paint some "movemented" themes. Contrary movement is not lacking
in the paintings on mythology and the Olympics.
At first, I wanted to publish a book on all mythologies of the world,
based on my History of civilizations project. I realized that the paintings
which I executed on Greek mythology outnumbered the ones based on other
mythologies. Not to minimize the value and contributions of the latter,
so important in that context, I decided to only concentrate on a Greek
mythology book, and then tackle the other mythologies.
Omiros
2009
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