"Markellos is a sophisticated and spontaneous artist like the light. The controlled practice of the artist with understanding passes skillfully and quickly in all colour ranges with a rush of the brush. He catches precisely the atmosphere and changes in light of the country that he interprets. He has an alternative choice and a strong personal interpretation."
Director of the Museum Revoltella, Trieste, Italy (1960)
"Markellos is very sunny in the colours and very brave in terms of light in his works without reaching the point of dazzling. He feels the landscape of Castile with more fervour than some of our Spanish artists."
Mariano Tomas, art critic, newspaper "Madrid" (1955)
"Markellos possesses a strong individuality, reminiscent of Theotokopoulos (El Greco). His compositions combine sunlight and spring beauty with dynamic lines and expressive characteristics."
Federico Galindo, DIGAME magazine, Spain (1955)
"Markellos is a representative of the painting of light; his works reach peaks in small formats with intensity, energy and exceptional quality."
Figuerola Ferretti, ARRIBA magazine, Spain (1955)
Greek Critics
"It is about a particularly interesting case that rests on the opportunities of a 'Cézanne' expressionism with great expressive power. Markellos sculpts his world from a colour range that is not only an essential tool but also the most important for expression. And this restless world is rough, energetic, and more precisely — continuously being born. The contrasting tones are strong, as always happens in the artistic expression that wants to depict nature, and also to interpret it. His paintings radiate tranquility. Everything is displayed naturally and convincingly. He is exclusively skillful and expresses only the important without going into detail and finally achieves a perfect range of colours."
Stelios Lydakis, art historian, Greece
"In his artistic expression, Markellos is wise, generous, and structural. His works of art show the long-term training in Athens, Spain and France. Composition of colours and light reveal the depth of the fine mastery of the artist. He believes in the objective reality of life and the art and recreates it freely with ease. He accepts the existing world as the only true reality — however, he does not imitate that reality but rather clears it from the temporary and transitional to magnify the spiritual. And this ambition permeates all his paintings. Markellos wants to reveal the poetic dream of reality."
Nikos Alexiou, historian and art critic, Greece
The Artist's Own Words
"Art is a continuation of our Self, so it is primarily necessary to achieve self-knowledge, in order to know who we are, to be able to express ourselves with our work of art. Art is continuity and consistency. Progress is not circumventing of difficulties and unserious simplification of everything — it is neither a firework in which darkness becomes impenetrable after a temporary glow. Naturalness is the main element of the higher art. For me what determines the value of the work of art is one that stands the time. Only the quality and inner life that the author is able to fill in the work of art with are what make it eternal."
Theodoros Markellos
