Pericles Pantazis was one of the first...

Pericles Pantazis was one of the first Greek painters to explore the new discourse suggested by French Realism and Impressionism. Significantly, each artist began his training in Nikiforos Lytras' Athens studio during the early 1870s, before establishing a vision and career in a foreign city. In 1872 he moved to Paris, and it was there he met Gustave Courbet, whose approach to painting became the cornerstone of Pantaszis style. ''Courbet's Realism offered the young artist new means of self-expr