The
look was vintage movie poster, bordering on 1940s noir, imbuing Mr.
DiCaprio with a mysterious allure befitting Humphrey Bogart back in the
day.
Mr.
Dimitriou, 78, has never met a Hollywood star, but he has painted
thousands of them. Nearly every week since the age of 15, he has
immortalized legends of the screen in dreamlike friezes of love, anger,
pride or temptation — often deftly, sometimes not, but always with
flair.
Heroes
are depicted as if from the pages of a comic book in a moody haze of
luminescence and shadow, with an atmosphere that flits between reality
and fantasy. The romanticized images evoke an earlier age of celluloid,
movie magazines and cigarette-smoking starlets, incongruous in an age of
DVDs and downloads, digital marquees and movies on demand.
