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Happy on the prairie Painting

Nikolaos Smyrnios

Greece

Painting, Oil on Canvas

Size: 15.7 W x 23.6 H x 0.1 D in

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In this unique work, both the background and the girl's silhouette are painted with oil on canvas and mounted to an mdf panel (the silhouette is cut and mounted on the top). The inspiration for this rather surrealistic painting comes from the well-known TV series "The little house on the prairie" and the books of Laura Ingalls Wilder, where her philosophy on life and human values emerges. I painted this specific scene wanting to focus on the particular feeling that is hard to describe in words, even if one had the happiness to feel it as a child, running freely on a green prairie on a sunny day in May. A feeling that makes you think you could fly in the air, as the girl in the picture is flying above the ground, carried away like a piece of paper by the sweeping wind of Time that makes this happiness so fleeting, since our childhood is limited to only a dozen or so years.

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Painting:

Oil on Canvas

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15.7 W x 23.6 H x 0.1 D in

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NIKOLAOS (NIKOS) SMYRNIOS was born in Edessa, Greece, to parents of Asia Minor descent. In his early 20s he immigrated to Stockholm, Sweden, where he studied in the Institute of Graphic Arts and the National College of Art & Design, a school which is considered as the heart of Scandinavian Design. Working in relevant professional and academic environments in both Sweden and Greece, he gained valuable experience and exceptional skills which have been reflected in his long lasting creative activity. The collection presented in the Saatchi online constitutes a small portion of Smyrnios' work and represents only few of the media he explored (painting, video, animation, graphic art) and the ideas he expressed through varied styles. Being actively engaged in the education of applied arts, as well as in graphic design, Smyrnios has managed to establish his artistic identity as a “child of his time”, interacting continuously with the modern spirit and New Media, adapting and discarding the elements of the Zeitgeist. ******************************************* STATEMENT OF THE ARTIST Aiming to invention and innovation, but remaining at the same time connected to the modernist tradition,  I base my art in the belief that painting should be a synthesis of visual forces, generated by distinct realities and their juxtaposition. Thereby, a broad experimentation in both subject and technique is of great importance, as well is to keep in touch with inner self. I have been influenced by Surrealism, Pop Art and Op Art, but mainly by the theories of Stylistic Pluralism that suggests the liberation of artists from being bound to one particular artistic identity, manifested in oneparticular style. Stylistic pluralism treats different artistic perspectives as constituents of the global art collective, each integrated into the global culture and feeding off each other’s strengths.         My long-term professional involvement as a graphic designer and illustrator as well as my early acquaintance with digital media, allow me to use a variety of techniques in order to create versatile and unique works that challenge viewers to engage in new and different visual logics. 

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