Nikos Karouzos Print

Acrylic on canvas. Grayscale. Portrait of poet Nikos Karouzos in his simple semi-basement apartment with his books. He worked word to word, I painted pixel to pixel. Between 1926 and 1990, he lived in Greece, worked with words. Today we work with pixels. I love his poetry. Also, I admire his way of seeing the life. Only needed his essentials and art. "Don’t read me if you haven’t attended the funerals of strangers or at least memorial services. If you haven’t divined the strength that makes love the rival of death. If you haven’t flown a kite on Clean Monday without monkeying with it. pulling on the string continually. If you don’t know if Nostradamus ever sniffed flowers. If you haven’t been at least once to the Deposition from the Cross. If you don’t know any past perfect. If you don’t love animals and, especially, squirrels. If you don’t hear thunder with pleasure, wherever you are. If you don’t know that the handsome Modigliani drunk at three in the morning, pounded furiously on a friend’s door looking for Villon’s poems and began to read for hours out loud disturbing the Universe. If you call nature our mother and not our aunt. If you don’t joyously drink the innocent water. If you don’t understand the Flowering Era is the one you’re living in. BEWARE WET PAINT. Don’t read me if you are right. Don’t read me if you haven’t quarrelled with the body . . . Time I was going, I have no more breath." Translation: Philip Ramp Publisher: First published on PIW

Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper

Size:10 W x 10 H x 0.1 D in

Size with Frame:15.25 W x 15.25 H x 1.2 D in

Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.