Tree, 1971

Pavlos (Dionyssopoulos) was born in Filiatra - Messinia in 1930. He studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts (1949-1953) with Y. Moralis. In 1954, he went to Paris on a French state scholarship. He returned to Athens in 1955 and worked in advertising and the theater until 1958, when he left again for Paris, on a 3-year Greek state scholarship and settled there permanently. His artistic progress was largely influenced by the innovative atmosphere of the ‘60s, and especially by the New Realists and Pierre Restany, characterised mainly by his switch from conventional canvas painting to the use of cheap everyday materials of modern civilisation.