Vassilis Haros was born in Kythera in 1938. From 1962 to 1967 he studied with a state scholarship at the Athens School of Fine Arts. He received a degree in printmaking, a head woodcut award, a degree in Byzantine iconography and a fresco award, a degree in Theoretical and Pedagogical Studies. From 1970 to 1973 he did his postgraduate studies in Paris at the Ecole Superieure des Beaux Arts. He was mainly involved in lithography using limestone slabs to print colour lithographs in the traditional way.

The work of Vassilis Charos

Vassilis Charos highlighted lithography beyond the narrow framework of graphic arts and the production of copies, reintegrating the process as an art and elevating it to purely aesthetic levels. His compositions usually have a melancholic mood. His work is influenced by surrealism and metaphysics. He was a member of cultural organizations and other institutions and was a founder of the Union of Greek Engravers, of which he was president. His exhibitions have been presented in Greece and abroad, and he has won many awards and distinctions in international exhibitions. He also participated in many exhibitions of engraving by Greek organizations. He is one of the greatest creators of Lithography in Greece. He died in Athens in 2000.

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