Κατεύθυνση Ιστορία της Τέχνης
Library of the School of Philosophy

2021-10-14

2021

Bratti Nikolitsa

Δημήτρης Παυλόπουλος, Καθηγητής, Ιστορικό - Αρχαιολογικό, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών
Ευθυμία Μαυρομιχάλη, Επίκουρη Καθηγήτρια, Ιστορικό - Αρχαιολογικό, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών
Βαγγέλης Καραμανωλάκης, Αναπληρωτής Καθηγητής, Ιστορικό - Αρχαιολογικό, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών

Ελισάβετ Βάλβη (1949) - Ασπασία Παπαδοπεράκη (1942). Δύο σύγχρονες Ελληνίδες γλύπτριες

Greek

Elisavet Valvi (1949) - Aspasia Papadoperaki (1942). Two contemporary Greek sculptresses

The concept regarding the erection of public monuments in Greece, emerges concurrently with the establishment of the Greek State and it is due to the need to pay tribute to those who fought for the country. Such a need leads towards the creation of a collective identity and thus, public monuments that evoke collective memories are now great in numbers. Among those, are the works of Elisavet Valvi and Aspasia Papadoperaki, two contemporary sculptresses who resolved to work towards the crafting of such monuments.
Both sculptresses attended the Athens School of Fine Arts under the tutelage of Demitris Kalamaras and later continued their studies at École des Beaux-Arts in the cradle of modern art, France. They matured artistically during a period when modernist movements thrived and evolved; nevertheless, Elisavet Valvi and Aspasia Papadoperaki chose to remain faithful to the representational rendition of forms, with few exceptions only, and their monumental work incorporates both classical and modernist elements. However, at times, this conflation of styles may lead to confusion.
The subject areas of both sculptresses focus upon two very important Greek historical periods: Elisavet Valvi crafted, among others, two monuments depicting the genocide of the Pontic Greeks and Aspasia Paparoperaki, besides the monuments that were erected in Crete and Athens, repeatedly dealt with the resistance during the German occupation with the female form as the protagonist.

History

History, Art, Sculpture, Hellenism, Genocide, Resistance, Monument

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