Theodoros Markellos — Greek painter, landscapes and seascapes
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Skopelos, White Kaiki — 25.00 × 35.00 cm — Theodoros Markellos
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Skopelos, White Kaiki

MK2158


Artist
Theodoros Markellos (1925–2015)
Medium
Oil on Fiberboard
Dimensions
25.00 × 35.00 cm
Category
Sea
Signed
Lower right

About This Work

Look at that little white kaiki, resting on a pale sea. The water holds its quiet.

There's such a calm over the whole scene. The hull rests low, its rigging tracing soft lines that drift toward the gray stone shoreline in the distance. The sky just opens up, breathing from that pale light at the horizon into a cooler blue overhead. See how the water mirrors it all in long, gentle strokes? The boat's form is so clean and simple, and the light is soft enough to dissolve any hard shadows—it almost seems to float on the surface, not in it. The air feels still, and time settles over the open water like something held.