Karolina (painter)
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Carol Wells[1] (Boston, 1939), or KAROLINA, or ΚΑΡΟΛΙΝΑ (her signature), is a naïve painter of Mykonos.[2] She was born in the United States and since she was 23 years old she has lived in Mykonos, painting the sights of Mykonos and selling her works to tourists.[3][4][5]
She was born on 25 December 1939, in Boston and studied at Concord Academy, Colorado College, and the Boston School of Fine Arts.[1] In 1962 she visited Mykonos and she has lived there since, selling her paintings to tourists and locals.
Her work has been preferred by the locals for decades, as well as garnering international appeal,[6] in its capture of the simplicity of Greek life,[3] with naïve style.[2][5]
The life of Karolina has been presented on Greek television,[7] and she was an inspiration for a short story by Peter Selgin,[8] as well as a poem by Neil Meili.[9]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 KAROLINA Archived 2018-11-08 at the Wayback Machine, karolinasmykonos.com, retrieved 5 Feb. 2012
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Mykonos, Paros, Naxos, DuMont Reise-Taschenbücher, Klaus Bötig, Marion Steinhoff, Edition 3, Publisher DuMont Reiseverlag, 2002, ISBN 9783770155453 Search this book on
., σελ. 64, Karolina, ein inseloriginal.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Shirley Valentine Syndrome Archived 2019-01-31 at the Wayback Machine, Mike Thiel, Spring/Summer 2001, hideaways.com "the simplicity of the Greek life that she captures so magically in her paintings", retrieved 5 Feb. 2012
- ↑ Islands in the sun, Aspire Magazine, Travel Greece[permanent dead link], Mike MacEacheran, page 61, retrieved 5 Feb. 2012 «Carolina, the island’s famous painter.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Downtown magazine (Greece), Ιούλιος 11- 17, 1997 "did you see the Karolines' which were hung by the entrance? And, of course, I have now learned to recognize the masterpieces of the great painter of the island «είδες τις Καρολίνες που είχε κρεμασμένες στην είσοδο; Και βέβαια, έχω μάθει πλέον να αναγνωρίζω τα αριστουργήματα της μεγάλης ζωγράφου του νησιού»
- ↑ A Halfday Walking Tour of Hora Archived 2016-02-02 at the Wayback Machine, Elizabeth Boleman-Herring's Greece, The Thinking Traveller's Guide to Hellas, The Literate Chigger, USA , retrieved 5 Feb. 2012
- ↑ Tv show «Γυρίσματα» Archived 2016-02-02 at the Wayback Machine, SKAI (ΣΚΑΙ) tv, 2008
- ↑ The Virgin of Crete Archived 2016-02-06 at the Wayback Machine, Peter Selgin, Nowhere travel stories (attention, this is a story and does not contain accurate information (for example, the place of birth is not correct
- ↑ It’s All Greek to me Archived 2016-01-31 at the Wayback Machine, Neil Meili, 2000 ISBN 9780973535655 Search this book on .
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