The reflection of religious inspiration ?  Is YATRIDES, a painter inspired by the Revelation and his work, seeking a new Apocalypse ?   This is an appropriate occasion to consider the works presented.

Neither Dragons, nor Horsemen, nor Angel-figures, nor Babylon, nor New Jerusalem, nor curses, blessings, rewards, punishments, portents or mysterious symbols... One could continue to fill pages listing those creatures and objects, traditionally linked to the subject evoked which do not figure in YATRIDES '  work.

And yet, in his paintings, an apocalyptic atmosphere prevails. A compelling inspiration pervades them. They are marked by an invisible presence. It is not the titles alone :   "And Death Shall be No More", "Ezekiel", "Fisher of Men", "The Arcades or The Pavilion of God", that give rise to this conviction.

A cross, a crucified man, a loaf, a small boat - this is more or less what the painter's specifically religious elements amount to. So where does this intense impression of transcendence come from that one immediately feels, and that no error of composition, no inappropriate detail will disturb ?

• It is that we are entering a pictorial universe which completely breaks away from the expressive styles elaborated by painters up until now, notably by those of our own century, from impressionists to abstract painters. A style of painting that presents a different perception.

Could it be that the author of "The Kingdom of God" is the long-awaited painter ?  The one who, through his work, would finally herald the return to Figurative Art ?

George YATRIDES is certainly a realistic painter. He invites us to enter a perfectly real universe. We can have confidence in him. Indeed we must have, completely and in all innocence, for the painter does not seek to shy away, or to exploit our credulity in order to surprise or mystify us in the manner of a SALVADOR DALI or a MAGRITTE.

But let us nevertheless be warned :  nothing in his canvases allows us to say, this is a landscape, a portrait or a still life, nothing, despite the appearances.

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Englsh translation by Penelope Hamilton

Extracts from following documents and works :
Official Authorities : "Administrative Biography"

Arthur Conte : "Yatridès master of time" SGL 04.03.1991
Sacha Bourmeyster : "Yatridès and his century" , "Yatridès the painter of invisible reality" , "Yatridès anti-Picasso"SGL24.03.1994, "Interstellars Icons" SGL 31.03.1994, "Yatridès and the Bible" SGL 30.10.96
Samuel E. Johnson : Biographic notes (International Galleries USA)
Monographic catalogues, Yatridès 1954-1993 : Exhibitions (USA permanently, Latin America, Switzerland, Greece, Paris, Provincial France) and Rétrospectives
Monographic catalogues, Yatridès in International Art Festivals :"Great Master Guest of honour" ("International Biennials Canada-France 1987-1989"), "Main Master Guest of honour" ("International Biennials Canada 1988"), "Great Master Guest of Honour" ("International Biennials Vichy, Riom, Mozac (Duke's cities), Quebec 1991-1993"), Grand Maître invité d'Honneur
Monographic catalogues, Yatridès : "Main Master guest of Honour" (France, specially Montmorency residential City)
Schools of Painting Events, USA : "Masters of Modern Art 1910-1960" (Special mention in "Watercolors, Gouaches, Pastels and Drawings from the Cubist, Post-Impressionist, Expressionist and Surrealist Schools 1910-1960"), "Drawings and Watercolors 1900-1959" (Art Event following this held by the American Ambassy in Paris (Musée de l'Orangerie, winter 1958-1959 : "From Clouet to Matisse" - Drawings in American Private Collections"), "Specialists in XXth Century Masters" (Special mention in "Collector's Choice").
University theses "The painter outside the tumult" (Sciences et Télécommunications Masters', MSTC Universities Grenoble III 1981), "Public Relations and communications techniques in the service of Painting -Yatridès" (Lehodey-Dissertation mémoire 402 pages, 1983 - School of Press Attachés, Founder and Managing director : Denis Huismans)
Films and videos : "Yatridès, paintings rails of sky" (Sacré-Coeur Montmartre Paris, Provideo S.A. 1981), "Yatridès the painter outside the tumult" ("René Char" Provideo S.A. 1983), " Yatridès' Art" (Version Originale S.A. 1985), "Germany, Poland, Russia" 1984.

YATRIDES  '  work has fascinated film-makers, movie-directors, semiologists, among the best of our time.
See in this website "His life" : "Entourage" in which appear "Jean DELANNOY", "Marcel CARNE" famed movie Directors, film-Makers
and in "His work" : "YATRIDES - KUBRICK".

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