THE PASTRY MAN by GYZIS

THE PASTRY MAN 

Gyzis was born in Tinos , which has a long artistic history. As his family settled in Athens in 1850, he soon embarked on a study at the Athens School of Fine Arts. His studies there, formed the foundation of his artistic education and helped him to develop his natural skill in painting.

In 1865, having won a scholarship, he went to continue his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts , Munich, where he settled for the rest of his life. He was very soon incorporated into the German pictorial climate, and became one of its most characteristic representatives of the Greek artistic movement of the Munich School. 

From 1886 onward he was professor at the Academy of Munich, and gradually turned from the detailed realistic depictions towards compositions of a singularly impressionistic character. His students included Anna May-Rychter and Stefan Popescu (Romanian painter).

At the beginning of the 1870s returned to Greece for a period of several years, after which he produced a sequence paintings with more avowedly Greek themes, such as the Carnival at Athens and the Arravoniasmata  and a little later the painting After the destruction of Psara. In 1898 he painted the Pastry Man. Towards the end of his life, in the 1890s, he took a turn toward more religious themes, with his best known work of the later period being Triumph of Religion. His works are today exhibited at museums and private collections in Greece, Germany and elsewhere.

1. What nationality is Gyzis?

a. Greek

b. French

c. Romanian

d. Spanish

2. What is the Pastry Man carrying?

a. refreshments

b. tea

c. sweets

d. wine

3. The Pastry Man is a(n) ................ painting.

a. abstract 

b. realistic

c. modern

d. cubism

4. It was painted in ............. century.

a. 19th

b. 20th

c. 20th

d. 21st