DIVING EUROPE

Born in the town of Veliko Tarnovo, the author lives and works for many years in Greece, absorbing the local cultural traditions and breaking them through his creative visions. Perhaps because of this long stay in the south, his paintings dominate warm, southern colors and color - golden-yellow, orange, fiery-red, turquoise-green, ocher, deep-brown.

   About the work of Stefan Georgiev, the famous Byzantine and Translator of the Ph.D. Evelina Mineva says: "From optimism and faith in life stems the basic idea that pierces Stefan's works: the original and eternal value of creativity. Without her, life is unthinkable, losing its essence and purpose. The artist embodies this idea in the traditional symbols of fertility - fruits like apple and pine, sunflower, fish that conceives countless eggs, but above all the woman. The woman, as in any classical and intransitive work, is a central image in Stefan's paintings. Although it carries various mythological, religious and legendary masks (Europe, Eve, Theotokos, Muses, Slavic idiots, etc.), it is real and authentic because it is represented in her real life roles: mother, beloved, protector, saint. Along with it there are other images and symbols that give historical and diachronic perspective to the compositions: ancient columns, crosses, keys, ancient heroes and mythological beings (Adam, Icarus, Heracles, the Owl of Athens, the beloved and beloved of "Song of Songs "). From a painting picture before our eyes unfolds a feast of beauty, the joy of life and the honor of eternal and invulnerable human values. And all this, made with the decorative expressive means of the Secession tradition, which the artist has learned to perfection, enriching it with his personal experience of native tradition, personal wisdom and sensuality. Tradition and personality, beauty and authenticity, attractiveness and warmth, skill and naturalness - all this gathered in just a few meters of canvas and paper ... "