The sailor

At a starry night, my sailor watches a small boat on the high seas...

 Its one of my art creations for my shop PlayTheArtBox, made from : Cardboard paper box, gouache colors, pastels, color pencils, lots of care and love. An original art creation with a lot of different layers of cardboard paper which gives a 3d effect, creating playful shadows with light.

The sailor by PlayTheArtBox 2013

 My sailor was inspired by the poems of Nikos Kavvadias and the paintings of Yiannis Tsarouxis. 

The Fog- a poem from Nikos Kavvadias

 The fog fell with the evening
-- the lightship lost --
and you arrived unexpected
in the pilot-house to see me.

You are wearing all white and you're wet, I'm plaiting your hair into ropes.
Down in the waters of Port Pegassu
It always rains this season.

The stoker is watching us
with both feet in the chains.
Never look at the antennas
in a storm; you'll get dizzy.

The boatswain curses the weather
and Tokopilla is so far away.
Rather than fearing and waiting
better at the periscope and the torpedo.

Go! You deserve firm land.
You came to see me and yet see me you didn't
I have since midnight drowned

Nikos Kavvadias (1910-1975)

a thousand miles beyond the Hebrides......

 

 

Nikos Kavvadias

was a Greek poet and writer; currently one of the most popular poets in Greece, who used his travels around the world as a sailor, and life at sea and its adventures, as powerful metaphors for the escape of ordinary people outside the boundaries of reality.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yiannis Tsarouchis

 

 Born in Piraeus, he studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts (1929–1935). He was also a student of Photios Kontoglou, who introduced him to Byzantine iconography, while he also studied popular architecture and dressing customs. Together with Dimitris Pikionis, Kontoglou and Angeliki Hatzimichali he led the movement for the introduction of Greek tradition in painting. From 1935 to 1936 he visited Istanbul, Paris and Italy. He came in contact with the Renaissance art and Impressionism. He discovered the works of Theophilos Hatzimihail and met influential artists such as Henri Matisse and Alberto Giacometti.

Yiannis Tsarouchis (1929-1935)