Synthesis 1969

Alekos Kontopoulos made this painting called Synthesis with oils, and I can almost feel him at work. It's a jumble of geometric shapes in greens, blues and reds. Sort of architectural but not quite anything I recognize. There's something deeply satisfying about the layering, and the way the colors peek through. I imagine Kontopoulos building up the surface, maybe scraping away, maybe rethinking. I wonder if he was thinking about the city, or maybe just forms in space. I love how a dark, almost black, pillar grounds the piece while these whimsical circular shapes dance around it. Look at how he lets the paint be itself. Thin washes, thick strokes. Each mark feels deliberate, a conversation between him and the canvas. It's like he's synthesizing a whole world of feeling and thought into this one little window.