{"id":12816,"date":"2025-08-01T20:06:49","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T17:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.olympismculture.com\/product\/gymni-optasia-maria-tsikalaki\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T10:07:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T07:07:19","slug":"gymni-optasia-maria-tsikalaki","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/olympismculture.com\/en\/product\/gymni-optasia-maria-tsikalaki\/","title":{"rendered":"Gymni Optasia &#8211; Maria Tsikalaki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"59\" data-end=\"173\">This artwork comes from the private collection of an individual collector. It is framed and ready for display.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"175\" data-end=\"229\">Proceeds from its sale will be donated to charity.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"20\"><strong data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"20\">ARTIST BIOGRAPHY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"22\" data-end=\"144\"><strong data-start=\"22\" data-end=\"41\">Maria Tsikalaki<\/strong> was born in Athens, and her engagement with painting and her love for it began in her preschool years.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"146\" data-end=\"308\">Her first free studies in the workshop of <strong data-start=\"188\" data-end=\"208\">Theodoros Drosos<\/strong>, combined with her final two years of high school, led her to take painting seriously as a pursuit.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"310\" data-end=\"536\">Holding as ideals Classical art, the great masters of the Renaissance, and those of the Flemish School, she began searching for the method\u2014or rather, the teacher\u2014who could initiate her into the secrets of these great creators.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"538\" data-end=\"658\">She eventually found such a mentor, and the months she worked alongside him opened new horizons in her artistic journey.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"660\" data-end=\"782\">Seeking to advance further, she attended painting seminars in the United States at the <strong data-start=\"747\" data-end=\"781\">California College of the Arts<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"784\" data-end=\"992\">Her next step involved spending countless hours in some of the world\u2019s greatest art galleries, attempting\u2014armed with her growing knowledge\u2014to decode the methods of the great masters and uncover their secrets.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"994\" data-end=\"1178\">She draws vision and inspiration from <strong data-start=\"1032\" data-end=\"1053\">Leonardo da Vinci<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"1055\" data-end=\"1075\">Giovanni Bellini<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"1077\" data-end=\"1095\">Paolo Veronese<\/strong>, and <strong data-start=\"1101\" data-end=\"1125\">Giambattista Tiepolo<\/strong>, whom she considers the supreme master of symbolism.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1180\" data-end=\"1230\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Her favorite artwork is <em data-start=\"1204\" data-end=\"1229\">\u201cThe Triumph of Venice\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil painting<\/p>\n<p>Dimensions: 60,5 x 70,5 cm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13747,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[118,139],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-12816","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-erga-texnis","product_cat-zwgrafikh-en","first","instock","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olympismculture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/12816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olympismculture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olympismculture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olympismculture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olympismculture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olympismculture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=12816"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olympismculture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=12816"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olympismculture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=12816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}