The first person to dream of a unified art was the French philosopher and student of aesthetics, Etienne Souriau, in his book ‘La Correspondance des Arts’ (1947).
Dimitris Chiotopoulos has made unified art a reality. Starting with poetry and the plastic arts, he has inspired the distinguished Greek composer Mimis Plessas to clothe these in music and movement, thus building up a perfect, challenging art form of a distinctive sort, as accessible to a general public as to the cognoscenti. An attempt - a fearless attempt - of this nature can only be made where conditions ensure high quality inspiration and execution; in other words, a high degree of technical skill that is not often achieved.
Otherwise the bold try will end up as a failure, because it is of insufficient quality. Hence there is continuous need for a lift in the aesthetic critical faculty of the average public, to say nothing of the artistic factors that drive the composer.
Only so can there be a lift in the artistic level, and in the cultural level generally, of societies where this level has, in our own time, been cheapened, with a consequent collapse in moral values.
What is sure is that Dimitris Chiotopoulos will continue to work at this ideal.

Evagelos Moutsopoulos
Academician
Professor of Philosophy
December 2010