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Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas

Index Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas

Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas (February 26, 1906 – September 3, 1994), also known as Niko Ghika, was a leading Greek painter, sculptor, engraver, writer and academic. [1]

42 relations: Academy of Athens (modern), Alexandros Hatzikyriakos, Athens, Avant-garde, Benaki Museum, Berlin, British Museum, Byzantine art, Chania, Chios, Cubism, Ephesus, Geneva, Government of France, Greece, Greek art, International Association of Art Critics, John Craxton, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, National Gallery (Athens), National Technical University of Athens, Nikos Engonopoulos, Nikos Kazantzakis, Nikos Nikolaou, Odyssey, Pablo Picasso, Panayiotis Tetsis, Paris, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Rex Warner, Rhodes, Royal Academy of Arts, Sorbonne, Tate, Venice, Venice Biennale, Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild, Whitechapel Gallery, X (magazine), Yannis Tsarouchis, Yiannis Moralis.

Academy of Athens (modern)

The Academy of Athens (Ακαδημία Αθηνών, Akadimía Athinón) is Greece's national academy, and the highest research establishment in the country.

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Alexandros Hatzikyriakos

Alexandros Hatzikyriakos (Αλέξανδρος Χατζηκυριάκος; 1 January 1874 – 24 March 1956) was a Greek Navy officer who rose to the rank of Rear Admiral.

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Athens

Athens (Αθήνα, Athína; Ἀθῆναι, Athênai) is the capital and largest city of Greece.

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Avant-garde

The avant-garde (from French, "advance guard" or "vanguard", literally "fore-guard") are people or works that are experimental, radical, or unorthodox with respect to art, culture, or society.

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Benaki Museum

The Benaki Museum, established and endowed in 1930 by Antonis Benakis in memory of his father Emmanuel Benakis, is housed in the Benakis family mansion in downtown Athens, Greece.

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and the largest city of Germany, as well as one of its 16 constituent states.

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British Museum

The British Museum, located in the Bloomsbury area of London, United Kingdom, is a public institution dedicated to human history, art and culture.

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Byzantine art

Byzantine art is the name for the artistic products of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire, as well as the nations and states that inherited culturally from the empire.

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Chania

Chania (Χανιά,, Venetian: Canea, Ottoman Turkish: Hanya) is the second largest city of Crete and the capital of the Chania regional unit.

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Chios

Chios (Χίος, Khíos) is the fifth largest of the Greek islands, situated in the Aegean Sea, off the Anatolian coast.

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Cubism

Cubism is an early-20th-century art movement which brought European painting and sculpture historically forward toward 20th century Modern art.

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Ephesus

Ephesus (Ἔφεσος Ephesos; Efes; may ultimately derive from Hittite Apasa) was an ancient Greek city on the coast of Ionia, three kilometres southwest of present-day Selçuk in İzmir Province, Turkey.

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Geneva

Geneva (Genève, Genèva, Genf, Ginevra, Genevra) is the second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and the most populous city of the Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland.

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Government of France

The Government of the French Republic (Gouvernement de la République française) exercises executive power in France.

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Greece

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Greek art

Greek art began in the Cycladic and Minoan civilization, and gave birth to Western classical art in the subsequent Geometric, Archaic and Classical periods (with further developments during the Hellenistic Period).

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International Association of Art Critics

The International Association of Art Critics (Association Internationale des Critiques d’Art, AICA) was founded in 1950 to revitalize critical discourse, which suffered under Fascism during World War II.

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John Craxton

John Leith Craxton RA, (3 October 1922 – 17 November 2009) was an English painter.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the United States.

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Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris

Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (City of Paris' Museum of Modern Art) or MAMVP, is a major municipal museum dedicated to modern and contemporary art of the 20th and 21st centuries.

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National Gallery (Athens)

The National Art Gallery–Alexandros Soutzos Museum (Εθνική Πινακοθήκη-Μουσείο Αλεξάνδρου Σούτζου, Ethniki Pinakothiki-Mouseio Alexandrou Soutzou) is an art museum in Athens devoted to Greek and European art from the 14th century to the 20th century.

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National Technical University of Athens

The National (Metsovian) Technical University of Athens (NTUA; Εθνικό Μετσόβιο Πολυτεχνείο, National Metsovian Polytechnic), sometimes known as Athens Polytechnic, is among the oldest higher education institutions of Greece and the most prestigious among engineering schools.

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Nikos Engonopoulos

Nikos Engonopoulos (Νίκος Εγγονόπουλος; October 21, 1907 – October 31, 1985) was a modern Greek painter and poet.

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Nikos Kazantzakis

Nikos Kazantzakis (Νίκος Καζαντζάκης; 18 February 188326 October 1957) was a Greek writer.

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Nikos Nikolaou

Nikos Nikolaou (Νίκος Νικολάου) (1909–1986) was a major figure in Greek art during the 20th century.

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Odyssey

The Odyssey (Ὀδύσσεια Odýsseia, in Classical Attic) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer.

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Pablo Picasso

Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France.

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Panayiotis Tetsis

Panayiotis Tetsis (Greek: Παναγιώτης Τέτσης; 1925 – 5 March 2016) was a Greek painter.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.

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Patrick Leigh Fermor

Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor, DSO, OBE (11 February 1915 – 10 June 2011), also known as Paddy Fermor, was a British author, scholar, soldier and polyglot who played a prominent role behind the lines in the Cretan resistance during the Second World War.

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Rex Warner

Rex Warner (9 March 1905 – 24 June 1986) was an English classicist, writer and translator.

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Rhodes

Rhodes (Ρόδος, Ródos) is the largest of the Dodecanese islands of Greece in terms of land area and also the island group's historical capital.

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Royal Academy of Arts

The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London.

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Sorbonne

The Sorbonne is an edifice of the Latin Quarter, in Paris, France, which was the historical house of the former University of Paris.

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Tate

Tate is an institution that houses the United Kingdom's national collection of British art, and international modern and contemporary art.

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Venice

Venice (Venezia,; Venesia) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region.

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Venice Biennale

The Venice Biennale (La Biennale di Venezia; in English also called the "Venice Biennial") refers to an arts organization based in Venice and the name of the original and principal biennial exhibition the organization organizes.

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Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild

Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild, (31 October 1910 – 20 March 1990), was a senior executive with Royal Dutch Shell and N M Rothschild & Sons, an advisor to the Edward Heath and Margaret Thatcher governments of the UK, as well as a member of the prominent Rothschild family.

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Whitechapel Gallery

The Whitechapel Gallery is a public art gallery in Whitechapel on the north side of Whitechapel High Street, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in the East End of London and Central London.

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X (magazine)

X, A Quarterly Review, often referred to as X magazine, was a British review of literature and the arts published in London which ran for seven issues between 1959 and 1962.

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Yannis Tsarouchis

Yannis Tsarouchis (Γιάννης Τσαρούχης; 13 January 1910 – 20 July 1989) was a Greek painter.

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Yiannis Moralis

Yiannis Moralis (Γιάννης Μόραλης; also transliterated Yannis Moralis or Giannis Moralis; 23 April 1916 – 20 December 2009) was an important Greek visual artist and part of the so-called "Generation of the '30s".

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikos_Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas

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