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200			_a _dPhotis Kontoglou _e _g _gcatalogue entries by Nikos Zias and Jenny Albani
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330			_aA Greek, an Oriental and a European Photis Kontoglou was a restless traveller who roamed many lands, lived for a long time in Paris, where he studied art, and -when he eventually returned to his home country- succeeded in bringing about something quite unique. For he turned the attention and adherence of contemporary Greek intellectuals and artists away from antiquity and western civilization to the culture of Byzantium. His broad and profound knowledge of the Byzantine tradition, as well as of modern artistic trends and ideas, helped him to create a style of his own. For him, Byzantine art was a departure point from which he could advance the artistic quests and experiments that enabled him to develop his own profoundly personal artistic creed. Writer and painter, deeply religious, Kontoglou from the 1920s onwards was to exert a key influence not only on intellectual and artistic circles, but also on the wider Greek public. Looking back today, it seems that few other figures can claim to have fulfilled a comparable role. I believe, therefore, that Photis Kontoglou needs to be understood as a major exponent of the Byzantine artistic tradition as continued in twentieth-century Greek painting. Both the Foundation for Hellenic Culture and myself are delighted and proud that, for the first time, we are in a position to present a major modern Greek artist to the New York public. This exhibition has been organized alongside the larger exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, "The Glory of Byzantium". (Adamantios Pepelasis, President, Foundation for Hellenic Culture, from the publisher) _a
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