Horses

Katraki's printmaking functions as an example and model of a conscious path characterized by exhaustive research, persistent search, experimentation, education and knowledge. The reception and rendering of the human form, which carries with dignity and solidity the weight of its existence, is the permanent aesthetic-thematic choice of her work, in which the thorough study, the dialogue with Greek art in its timelessness, the experience and emotions make their mark and play a primary role. The compositions Horses (early 1960s) give the measure of her possibilities and conquests. The concentration on the essential, the curves and dynamic twists, the responses of the lines, the design intensity and the solid volumes validate the meaningful depth and richness of her formulations. The negotiation of the theme from composition to composition allows us to follow its evolutionary course and morphological transformations, with references, direct or indirect, to the depictions of horses in the art of the Geometric period and to the relief metopes of the Parthenon.