11 Dec ATHINA SCHINA – Art historian, 2000
«…The world that inspires her imagination (Alice Papadopoulou-Tournikioti’s) is the world of reality, she draws stimulants from daily life..She nearly always paints without a preliminary sketch, directly, and this is commendable, since when she decides to take an extract and negotiate it she has already chosen the combination of colors inside herself. This usually occurs on the pallet. Here it occurs on the canvas. What distinguishes her is the seal of her free expression, because it is related to her black and white drawings. She can give tones, shades, depth, and her explosive objects frequently look as though they are floating. Floating in time, they also float in the light because they have no source of light, any source of light whatsoever comes out of the things… What impresses us is the exceptional way she gives depth without perspective, a feature deriving from the Byzantine years. If we can say that she is influenced, inspired somewhere, it is from Byzantium in perspective – she often has a reverse perspective -, from Post Impressionism in composition, form expressionism in her seal and from the French Fauvists in the intensity of color… Her seal, her brush strokes are sculpted and have a peculiarity. It is not only intensity that is attracted by light. It is the direction itself and the thickness of the brush stroke that makes this thing full of juices and alive…»
