Description The cretan home representative sample of folklore of architecture with their exterior stairs and lime walls.The rich vegetation it constituted the subject of inspiration of the artist.The sensitive eye in every traditional is digging the heritage of his place and it seeks, it records the legacy that it has remained from the wealth and the value of the past.The old woman,the unique person in the painting is focus to the daily occupations of her house and she shows like the environment shows she constitutes integral piece of world that surrounds her,the world in which she grew and she will die this is the fate ,the fate of a woman that loved the life in village and now anymore constitutes a integral piece of significance and her characteristic.This is a real scene painted with oil on canvas by Dimitrios Gonalakis
DIMITRIOS Gonalakis, KISAMOS CHANIA Member Since January 2015 Artist Statement Dimitris Gonalakis was born in 1942 in Kamara, Koleni of Kissamos. After he finished his military service dealt with the advertising model, the political cartoon and the illustration of books and Athenian magazines ("Little Hero", "Mask", "Zorro", "Pantheon", etc.) parallel he studied free painting, intensively studying the trends and styles of classical technique and since 1967 has engaged in painting