ATHENS-As Greece and China are preparing to celebrate their 2021 Year of Culture and Tourism with a series of events starting this spring, Greek painter Maria Giannakaki has been celebrating Sino-Greek friendship and cooperation through art in her studio in Athens every day for the past 35 years.
Her paintings are her reflections on Chinese philosophy, which she embraced as a young student in China in the 1980s. The techniques of traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy she was taught at the China Academy of Art can be seen in her work, she told Xinhua in a recent interview.
Giannakaki exemplifies how cultural exchanges help people understand each other, even if they are separated by large geographical…