Dimosthenis Kokkinidis

Biography Selected works

Biography

Born in Piraeus, at 1929. He studied initially for two years at the Athens University of Economics and Business but abandoned this sector in order to be devoted to painting. He studied at the School of Fine Arts of Athens (1952-1957) with teachers P. Papaloykas and G. Moralis. The two next years he worked with scholarship of Italian government. He studied folk and Byzantine art in Athos and Lesvos. Being the person in charge of the artistic department of Greek National Organization of Handicrafts (1959-1961) dealt with the productive exploitation of islander pottery. He has intense reflection for the social operation of arts and this appears in his intense interest in the artistic applications and the aesthetics of utilitarian objects. In the same ideological frame he developed important activity as founding member of “Team of Art A” (1960-1967). In 1972 he received scholarship of the Ford institution. He participated in events and exhibitions as founding member of “Team for the Communication and the Education in Art” (1974-1981). In 1967 he was elected regular professor in the School of Fine Arts of Athens, where he developed appreciable instructive work, up to 1997 (he served as a dean of faculty, 1980-1982). He remains colorist with abstractive expressionistic intensities, without using a formally realistic writing. The coexistence of high painting sensitivity with the sober critical mood gives in his art a particularity that cannot go unnoticed. He played a positive role in the modernisation of Greek art. He denied to participate in big international exhibitions (Biennal etc), considering that in this meetings, in the way that is organized in the metropolitan centres, is not ensured the reciprocal respect to the work of exhibitors of other countries. His work can be found in the National Gallery, in the Macedonian Centre of Modern Art, Thessalonica, in the National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation collection, in the National Bank etc. He is member of the Chamber of Fine Arts.

Selected works

DIMOSTHENIS KOKKINIDIS - (1929 - 2020) - SEA LANDSCAPE

TITLE: SEA LANDSCAPE
MEDIUM: OIL ON CANVAS
DIMENSIONS: 70χ100 CM.
INFORMATION: SIGNED BELOW

Η ΓΗ

ΤΙΤΛΟΣ: Η ΓΗ
ΥΛΙΚΟ: ΕΛΑΙΟΓΡΑΦΙΑ ΣΕ ΞΥΛΟ
ΔΙΑΣΤΑΣΕΙΣ: 60χ70 ΕΚ.
ΠΛΗΡΟΦΟΡΙΕΣ: ΥΠΟΓΕΓΡΑΜΜΕΝΟ ΣΤΟ ΚΑΤΩ ΜΕΡΟΣ

Θαλασσινό Τοπίο

Θεμα: Θαλασσινό Τοπίο
Υλικό: Ελαιογραφία σε καμβά
Διάσταση: 40χ50 εκ.
Πληροφορίες: Υπογεγραμμένο και χρονολογημένο (2016) στο πίσω μέρος 

Τάνκερ

Θεμα: Τάνκερ
Υλικό: Ελαιογραφία σε καμβά
Διάσταση: 35χ45 εκ.
Πληροφορίες: Υπογεγραμμένο στο κάτω μέρος δεξιά και χρονολογημένο (2016) στο πίσω μέρος 

ΤΟΠΙΟ

ΘΕΜΑ: ΤΟΠΙΟ
ΥΛΙΚΟ: ΕΛΑΙΟΓΡΑΦΙΑ ΣΕ ΚΑΜΒΑ
ΔΙAΣΤΑΣΕΙΣ: 120χ100 ΕΚ.
ΠΛΗΡΟΦΟΡΙΕΣ: ΥΠΟΓΕΓΡΑΜΜΕΝΟ ΣΤΟ ΚΑΤΩ ΜΕΡΟΣ