Vyzantios Ntikos

Greek painter Vyzantios Ntikos made abstract canvases full of bold shapes and raw energy. His brushwork in Traces Ouvertes and Week-end (1992) feels alive, with thick lines cutting across fields of color. Rupture XVII (1991) twists the grid into something tense and fragile.

Even his 1942 self-portrait, Αυτοπροσωπογραφία του Κωνσταντίνου (Ντίκου) Βυζάντιου, hides a quiet intensity behind its loose strokes. For a closer look at how his colors collide, tap Το Μπιλιάρδο (1993).