Mr. Pavlos

Yannis Valavanidis was born in 1939 in Athens. During the period 1957-1963 he studied painting and engraving at the A.S.K.T. with G. Moralis, K. Grammatopoulos and mosaic with E. Voila. He participated in left-wing student organizations and in the 1960s and during the junta he participated in mobilizations while his compositions had an anti-dictatorial character. He lived and worked for a year in Paris and in 1970, together with G. He lived and lived in Greece for several years and lived in Greece for several years, where he lived and worked in Greece and Greece for several years, where he worked with G. Valavanidis, K. Dingas, K. Katzourakis and G. He formed the group "New Greek Realists", which presented works in Greece during the dictatorship period. The subject matter of his works is divided into major sections of work: portraits, mountains, mountains, tools, spaces, full-length portraits, which he represents almost photorealistically either through direct observation of the model or through the use of photographic documents. Alongside his artistic work, he taught for many years at the Vakalo School (1972-1980) and at the A.S.K.T. (1981-2005), where he was vice-rector from 2001-2004 and was involved in book illustration and cover design. He died in 2017 in Athens.