Dimitris Krapsitis

I received a five-year degree from Thessaloniki Academy of Fine Arts, Greece. In my cursus honorum there is also a year of Erasmus Project in Granada (Spain). After completing my academic studies, I started painting portraits in oils. Gradually I focused on the human figure and its different representations, drawing inspiration from Greco-Roman mosaics and 20th century painting.

As an artist, what interests me is to observe society and to depict / present it in my art. I observe the place of man in this society and try to understand the choices of people based on this position. I shape and unite philosophical elements of today by deepening the needs of the human condition as it is understood today. I am interested in the impact and the strength of my work to focus on the inequality we have between us and the environment. I do not want to forget the old but to reshape it into something new, into a new aesthetic language that can establish a new global and humanitarian message. I usually print my art on canvas with oil, charcoal, lime, gold leaf and silver.

These materials help me to add value to my works. and each material I press on the canvas serves its own function. Through my travels to Colombia, Central America and Italy I have been influenced by colors and styles that I incorporate into my works. This simple life I lived in Latin America and the media of ordinary people living there inspired me to choose these materials that I use as it delimited my themes.