Ιn painting one can easily reach “likeness” just as in this one after a lot of effort and toil, one may never arrive.
As it happens that the “resemblance” is similar and the “resemblance” is different… and from what I have understood the latter has always been the quality of the painting and its poetry.
In place of a preface
It is ultimately about the redefinition of the image, and specifically for Vamvakaris the image of the female form, which initially offers security but very quickly it is realized that it is an image – fallacy, a metamorphosis of the real, which causes concern, reflection and anxiety with its ability to lead to the unknown of the inner world and to the psyche of the represented form.
