Georges Yatridès Explained

Georges Yatridès
Birth Date:5 March 1931
Birth Place:Grenoble, France
Death Place:Saint-Marcellin, Isère, France
Known For:Painting
Notable Works:Slab monolith

Georges Yatridès (March 5, 1931 — November 28, 2019) was a French painter.[1] His work is held in various North American private collections, and has been featured in retrospectives.

Early years and personal life

Georges Yatridès was born in 1931 in Grenoble, France. His parents were Greek. During the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, they moved to France in 1917. His father was of Greek heritage, born in the United States, and studied in France. His paternal grandfather was a Christian Orthodox Deacon who worked as a pastor in Rock Springs, Wyoming. His great-grandfather was a Christian Orthodox Archimandrite.[2]

Over the course of his lifetime, he has lived in France and the United States.

Career

In 1954 he exhibited paintings produced from 1945 to 1949 in Vichy. In 1956, his work was shown in Paris at Madame Chastenet de Gery's Gallerie des Voyelles.[3] [4] A representative of the International Galleries of Chicago was contracted to purchase Yatridès's works, which were sold to private collectors in Canada and the United States. Two works sold through the Chicago firm were Daybreak in Port and Landscape, both made in 1960.

From 1957 to 1965, he held solo exhibitions in the United States,[5] [6] [7] Canada, Latin America, Switzerland, Great Britain and Greece, where his works were acquired by private collections[8] and a museum.[9] One solo exhibit was at the Contemporary French Masters in Chicago in 1959.

Yatridès was described by writer Vanessa Fize as "a great contemporary painter, driven by his passion for light and science". His work had elements of graphic art in the 1960s. The following decade he studied in Grenoble at the Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA) to research light and color. As his career progressed he explored use of different media and materials.[10]

Yatridès made the large compositions that would characterize his art in the 1970s.[11] In 1981, he exhibited paintings inspired by the Bible in three crypts in the Sacré-Cœur in Paris.

Events from the 1980s include:

On 17 January 1996, "Yatrides et son siècle" council was established to protect the public, civil and professional interests of Yatridès's works. The organization is composed of "senior officials" (tax administration director, police security officers, doctors).[13]

Yatrides died on November 28, 2019, in Saint-Marcellin, Isère, France.

Comparison to Kubrick

Art critics have suggested there are similarities between the monolith in Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey and a recurring monolith motif in the artwork of Yatridès. Arthur Conte suggests that Yatridès' Adolescent and Child canvas painted in 1963 has a slab similar to that of Kubrick.[14] Sacha Bourmeyster, a semiology specialist, states that the Yatridès slab communicates supernatural life in a manner similar to that in 2001.[15] Similarities between Yatridès' art and Kubrick's monolith have also been noted on CyberArchi, an on-line French architecture magazine.[16]

Works

Selected works of Yatridès are:

Further reading

Notes and References

  1. News: Des arts d'énergie et de paix . Sud Ouest . 6 June 2012 . 8 June 2013 . L . F. .
  2. Web site: Biography . Ask Art . 8 June 2013.
  3. Book: Conte, Arthur . Georges Yatridès, maître du temps . Editions Lumières et Espace . 1992 . 272. 2-9507049-0-5 .
  4. Book: Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs et graveurs du Dauphiné . Yves . Deshairs . Maurice . Wantellet . Alzieu Editions . 2008.
  5. Book: International Galleries, Chicago . Exhibition. Georges Yatridès. [November 6th through November 30th, 1959] . Intgal Publications . Paris, Chicago . 1959.
  6. Web site: Yatridès, Georges – Exhibitions . Chicago History Museum Research Center . 25 September 2013 . 27 September 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130927080754/http://www.chsmedia.org:8081/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&aspect=subtab112&npp=10&ipp=20&spp=20&profile=public&ri=&source=~!horizon&index=.GW&term=yatrides&x=9&y=11&aspect=subtab112 . dead .
  7. Book: Yatridès . Juarez Galleries . Palm Beach, Florida . 1963.
  8. Book: Who's who in international art. 1998–1999 . Organization and counsel society for plastic Arts . Geneva, Switzerland . 1999 . 77605867 .
  9. Book: Miller, Dwight Cameron . A Catalogue of European Painting . Indianapolis Museum of Art . Indianapolis, IN . 1970 . 603082716 . 222.
  10. Web site: Georges Yatridès, rencontre avec le peintre dans sa retraite iséroise . culturebox, France Télévisions . 29 April 2013 . 8 June 2013 . Vanessa Fize.
  11. Book: Bourmeyster, Sacha . Georges Yatridès et son siècle: L'Anti-Picasso . Editions Lumière et Espace . 1994 . 2-9507-0491-3.
  12. News: Georges Yatridès l'art passe... . La Republique du Centre . 10 May 1988.
  13. Web site: Journal Officiel de la République Française first publication 18 January 1996, 2005 update.
  14. Book: Conte, Arthur . Yatrides, Maitre du temps . Espace et Lumières . 1992 . 2-9507049-0-5 . 170.
  15. Book: Bourmeyster, Sacha . Georges Yatrides et son siècle, l'anti picasso . Editions Espace et Lumières . 1994 . 2-9507049-1-3 . 230.
  16. Web site: Raphaël Gabrion et le mystère des géopglyphes de Nazca . CyberArchi, Groupe Batiweb . 8 June 2013.
  17. Web site: George Yatrides Sold at Auction . Artfact, LLC . 8 June 2013 .

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