Konstantinos Maleas

Maleas was greatly influenced by Impressionist and Post-Impressionist models, and would produce mainly schematised landscapes visually described with pure, potent colours. The bold arrangement of the chromatic planes and fields, and the importance of light and atmosphere reinforce the artist's connections with the work of Cézanne, Fauvism and Post-Impressionism. Maleas reached beyond simply transcribing luminosity or the transience of phases of nature, but reconfigured his landscapes as being subservient to pure colour's emotionally evocative force. 

In Maleas' work, architectural elements and natural elements come to the same: all are schematised into planes and simple surfaces, and '... such an interpretive approach to nature, bearing an essential affinity with the colour expressionism of Matisse and the French Fauves, incorporating Art Nouveau stylistic elements and touching on several pictorial issues raised by Parthenis and Kogevinas, formulates a new perception of the landscape, closely kindered with that of Ghika during the 1940s and the early Moralis in the 1930s' (Haris Kambourdis and George Levounis, Modern Greek Art of the 20^th Century: The Complete Guide to the Collections of the Rhodes Municipality Modern Greek art Museum, Athens, 1999, p. 30).