Mayo (painter)
See also: Mayo
Mayo , of its true name Antoine Malliarakis, is a Greek painter of culture French (naturalized French in the last years of its life), born on February 15th, 1905 with Port-Saïd and died on October 1st, 1990 with Seine-Port (its year of birth is often indicated as being 1906: it is acted in fact of an administrative error).
Wire of a Greek engineer of the Suez Canal and of a French mother, it is established in France to follow there studies of architecture, which it completed only laboriously. It is interested indeed only in painting and the drawing, and quickly becomes one accustomed of the artistic and night life of Montparnasse.
He saw work of decoration, and carries out decorations and costumes for plays. He also collaborates in the artistic review the Big game and carries out several exposures. He is a friend close to Antonin Artaud and Rene Crevel: Mayo is quoted like a painter Surréaliste and most of its pictorial work is attached to this esthetics, but it forever formed part officially of the French surrealist movement, for lack of personal affinities with some of its members. In 1944, his/her friend Jacques Prévert recommends it to Marcel Carné as costumier of the film the Children of the paradise. He collaborated thereafter in more than twenty French films as creator of costumes, in particular the Beauty of the devil and Casque of gold, like with the Earth of the Pharaons , péplum American realized by Howard Hawks. He is credited on certain credits under the name of Antoine Mayo. He also continues to work for the theater. With the beginning of the year 1960, the films with costume being done rarer, Mayo decides to be devoted again to painting. It is established with Rome and remained there until 1984. It carries out many exposures in Italy, in particular with Rome, Milan and Palermo. Reached of a serious affection of the eyes, it was unable to paint in the eight last years of its life. It is named in 1986 Commander of the Ordre of Arts and the Letters.
He is in addition the father of the editor and political militant Jean-Gilles Malliarakis.
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