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Vasilis Dimitriou, the last remaining cinematic poster painter in Athens and probably in Europe, died yesterday, Monday 8, September 2020. Small details of the painter’s workshop, Athens, Greece, Jan 2014. Photo by Yannis Drakoulidis / fosphotos Watch more in this video from 2015: https://youtu.be/LkkGXe_OT-M

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Vasilis Dimitriou, Keeper of a Fading Movie Art, Dies at 84

Vasilis Dimitriou, an artist who sought to keep the venerable art of the painted Hollywood billboard from fading away, creating more than 8,000 works for Greek theaters that virtually chronicled the history of movies since World War II, died on Sept. 6 in Athens. He was 84 and one of the last surviving movie billboard painters in Europe.

The cause was Parkinson’s disease, said Konstantinos Giannopoulos, a family spokesman and a third-generation owner of the Athinaion Cinemas, which displayed Mr. Dimitriou’s billboards, reaching more than 40 feet long, for 40 years.

Mr. Dimitriou, a self-taught painter from a poor family that survived the Nazi invasion and Greece’s military junta, began immortalizing legends of the silver screen at age 15. For more than six decades he painted one to two billboards a week, inspired by studio handouts featuring stars ranging, over time, from Gary Cooper to Leonardo DiCaprio.

Using home-brewed paints suffused with glue to keep the billboards from running in the rain, Mr. Dimitriou created romanticized images that seemed torn from the pages of a comic book. “The Exorcist” was forebodingly illustrated in chiaroscuro, with blood dripping from the title’s Greek letters. For the 1997 remake of “Lolita,” he painted a lithe, prepubescent Dominique Swain stretched on the grass in a wet dress. For “Ali,” Will Smith’s boxer’s face was clenched like a fist.

The billboards’ look, with brush strokes reminiscent of 1940s Noir, turned the Athinaion into the most recognizable movie house in Athens.

In recent years, as digitally drawn, mass-produced movie posters became the norm, Mr. Dimitriou made it his mission to keep the art form from dying, though he acknowledged that it remained a throwback to what he called “the golden age” of cinema.

“Back then, you would go to the movies in a suit and tie,” he told The New York Times in 2014. “Women would wear beautiful dresses. There was an intermission, and half the theater would go to the foyer to have a drink and discuss the movie. Now that’s gone.”

He vowed to keep the craft going as long as he could lift his arms to paint.

His work left an indelible mark on the Greek capital, where Athenians have grown up seeing his posters. They were an especially comforting sight during the recent Greek financial crisis, when unemployment reached nearly 25 percent and consumer confidence plummeted.

“People would see me putting my posters up and give me a huge smile,” Mr. Dimitriou said. “Or they would ask to shake my hand and say, ‘thank you,’ for giving them joy.”

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Dimitriou is a rather interesting character, mostly due to the fact that he's one of the only people within canon that has used Soulvolvere.

It is not too dissimilar to the likes of Mega Evolution from the Pokémon Series. However, unlike Mega Evolution which is a temporary transformation that uses the power of a stone, Soulvolvere on the other hand is a permanent transformation that requires the consumption of another human soul. Thus, not only taking the life of this individual, but also erasing their soul. In fact, many believe that when this process is complete the Dimitriou’s battle cry is echoed with the screams of an erased soul.

Thus, those who use such a phenomena are seen as very malicious and dangerous. Dimitriou is no exception, as after taking the soul of [REDACTED], he became the man you see today. In addition, because of his Nature Manipulation (with many claiming Absolute Nature Manipulation) he has become quite the Darwinist. With this attitude he is one who believes that the weak will die and only the strongest survive. Of course, there is little doubt that he is the strongest, as he essentially rules this universe all on his own. None shall stand in his way.

Dimitriou and Soulvolvere (c) @daidek

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دھندلا ہوا مووی آرٹ کی کیپر ، واسیلس دیمیتریؤ ، 84

دھندلا ہوا مووی آرٹ کی کیپر ، واسیلس دیمیتریؤ ، 84

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ایتھنز – واسیلس دیمیتریو ، ایک مصور جنہوں نے پینٹ ہالی وڈ کے بل بورڈ کے معتبر فن کو ختم ہونے سے روکنے کی کوشش کی ، یونانی تھیٹر کے لئے 8000 سے زیادہ کام تخلیق کیے جس نے دوسری جنگ عظیم کے بعد سے فلموں کی تاریخ کو عملی طور پر ہی دائرہ کار بنایا ، 6 ستمبر کو ایتھنز میں انتقال کر گئے . وہ 84 سال کے تھے اور یورپ میں زندہ بچ جانے والے فلم کے بل بورڈ پینٹرز میں سے ایک تھے۔

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Vassilis Dimitriou, defender of a fading film art, dies at 84 Vasilis Periklis Dimitriou was born on February 18, 1936, in Pogonia, a village in northern Greece, to Periklis and Constantina (Douca) Dimitriou.

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