Theo Hios, Abstract Oil on Canvas (1965)

Description We wonder, is this an abstracted landscape or as an article on Hellenic Diaspora's website implies, is it an example of his foray into greater abstraction? The article states that Theo Hios's painting "gradually shifted towards abstraction in a more intense manner since the early 1960s, and was fully manifested through the circular formations he drew up until the end of the 1970s. In these new images of concentric or divergent circles on square or circular canvases, Hios combined spiritual and cosmic elements such as the movement of the planets and stellar bodies with Byzantine painting tradition and rendered them with the painting language of his era."  Details Theo Hios (Greek/American, 1908-1999) Untitled (1965) Oil on canvas Signed and dated on verso Newly cleaned, varnished and framed About the Artist From his January 16, 1999 obituary in The New York Times: During his six-decade painting career, his style occasionally turned abstract, but he mostly hewed to ex