Anna Maria Smyrnaki

The five initial thematic groups for Smyrnaki Anna Maria’s paintings

The paintings of Smyrnaki Anna Maria are initially separated in five distinct thematic groups (more thematic groups will be released over time). The different thematic groups are the following:

• Thoughts 

The first thematic group titled THOUGHTS is meant to introduce the artist to the audience. The paintings introduce the unique characteristics, painting technique, style and talent of Anna Maria Smyrnaki.

• Conversations 

In the second thematic group titled “Conversations” the artist discusses with birds in search of the Meaning of freedom mainly in a human life. According to Heidegger, humans are the only beings who know that they will die. It can be argued that despite the fact that human life is indeed bounded by death, and that humans are indeed marked by this inescapable reality of death, human beings still continue to create in the face of this reality in order to define and set themselves apart from the agony in the face of death. This human characteristic/ability is “the Meaning”.

• Personal 

The third thematic group titled “Personal” is an attempt to describe what it means to live with other people, to influence them, to react with them. Of course, always and under all possible circumstances, we are alone. To recreate, to have fun, to act and to consume like everyone else, to love and hate what others love and hate, for the most part are fake needs. Herbert Marcuse emphasizes that human needs remain what they have always been, products of a society whose overriding interests require oppression.

• Family

In the fourth thematic group titled FAMILY an autobiographical storyline emerges that is associated to the artist and her life

• Me

The fifth thematic group was created on the notion that there is a huge difference between Being Lonely and Being Alone. Being Lonely is when you feel lonely, you think about others, you miss others, you are sort of addicted. Feeling lonely can be a negative situation. Being Alone is the absence of others. Being Alone is the presence of one’s self. Being Alone can be positive, can be true freedom. It is a presence that overflows. You are so full of presence, that you can fill the entire universe with your presence and so there is no need for others according to OSHO.