Actors

George Vakirtzis uses the primary material provided by the movie distributors, that is the “documents”:

• Shots of the movie protagonists or of the film’s most representative scenes, black and white photographs at first, and then color photographs.
• Occasionally some posters and, more rarely, the advertising leaflets that were imported in Greece along with the foreign films. In some cases, the painter uses the photographic theme, enlarging the photographs through grid drawing methods and adding color – as appropriate for each film – and synthesizing or isolating film scenes. And yet in others, he creates the giant cinema poster themes purely out of his imagination…