Learn the alphabet of art, the symbolism of colors, dark colors, browns, are earthy, they refer to the earth, red is intensity, you can't feel this with your logic, you have to feel it. Birds react to colors, they don't go to university to learn where the nectar is. The same goes for plants that give off a scent to attract the bird for fertilization. Blue is the ether, the spirit, yellow the sun, the light. The role of art, of painting, is to "soften" man so that he can have a better relationship with life. Painting is an act of the soul. When I paint, I don't know what I'm doing. I let myself be free and everything comes...
Learn the alphabet of art, the symbolism of colors, dark colors, browns, are earthy, they refer to the earth, red is intensity, you can't feel this with your logic, you have to feel it. Birds react to colors, they don't go to university to learn where the nectar is. The same goes for plants that give off a scent to attract the bird for fertilization. Blue is the ether, the spirit, yellow the sun, the light. The role of art, of painting, is to "soften" man so that he can have a better relationship with life. Painting is an act of the soul. When I paint, I don't know what I'm doing. I let myself be free and everything comes...
Warlamis was a charismatic, versatile artist who, with his works, tried to arouse the viewer’s interest and open communication with him. At first, he participated in the dialogue of the European avant-garde with works characterized by an intense poetic and often “architectural” mood.
However, he was concerned with the difficulty of ordinary people to approach and come into contact with art, a phenomenon that characterizes contemporary artistic creation as a whole, and this led him to find ways to open a direct and lively dialogue with the general public regardless of age, social class and education.
Thus, he began to paint Alexander the Great, creating hundreds of paintings that immediately touched ordinary people, and at the first presentation of the collection in Thessaloniki, it was visited by more than 500,000 people who came from all parts of Greece, and even from abroad. At the same time, this exhibition was also a lesson in the history of art and painting technique, since he used everything from the encaustic technique – of the era of Alexander – to modern graphic and abstract techniques.
The continuation was similar. He painted huge art collections that referred to and supported our Greek and Christian identity (The Mountains of My Homeland, Axion Esti-Mikis Theodorakis, Mount Athos, Christ Today, Apostle Paul, etc.) as well as themes that open a dialogue with the European and global audience, such as the large collection on Mozart (the painting of music) and “Mother, the Power of Love” (the importance of maternal love for athletes, on the occasion of the Athens Olympic Games).
He was very inventive in the selection and use of materials and utilized every technique that served the best communication of his works, never being trapped in a specific “successful” style. What also characterized him were the extensive series of paintings on the same subject as well as the large dimensions of the artworks, elements that also facilitated communication and attracted the interest of visitors to the exhibitions. It was an issue that also concerned him in the design of the exhibitions and, as an architect himself, he took care with the direction and the atmosphere that he created so that the visitor had a fascinating experience and did not remain a simple observer.
