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and other modern schools increased their influence. In the early 20th century Greek artists turned from Munich to Paris. The interest of Greek painters, artists changes from historical representations to Greek landscapes with an emphasis on light and colours so abundant in Greece. Representatives of
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At the beginning of the 20th century landscape painting held sway and the interest of painters turned toward the study of light and color. The dependence of Munich slackened and Paris became the pole of attraction for the artists of the period. In the early 20th century
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ateliers. As efforts persisted with new directions and objectives, Greek artists emerging in the world during the first decades of the 19th century reconnected Greek art with its ancient tradition, as well as with the quests of the European
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is also represented by significant Greek artists in Munich. Many of these Munich School artists chose subjects such as everyday Greek life, local customs, and living conditions. Several important painters emerged at this time.
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was taught for mural paintings on fresh wet lime plaster. During this period much of the art was emotional and theatrical in tone. The most prominent themes of the school of Munich were urban life, rural life, still life, and
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in particular were for large periods under Venetian or other European powers' rule and thus were able to better assimilate the radical artistic changes that were occurring in Europe during the 14th-18th century.
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movement developed, but most Greek painters remained faithful to the precepts of their teachers with only some nebulous thrusts in the direction of this movement. The first Greek impressionist was
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in Greek art . The further development of these painters led to other roads, but always within the framework of the avantgarde movement albeit with a Greek dimension.
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across Europe, and the new Greek social elite, as well as external artistic influences, predominantly from Germany and France.
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Modern Greek art can be said to have been predominantly shaped by the particular socioeconomic conditions of Greece, the large
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coming into the limelight of Greek Art. These painters tried mainly to link leading European trends with Greek tradition.
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achieved international recognition with his surrealist conceptions both of painting and poetry, while in the late 1960s
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was another leading painter of the period closely associated with the Munich School, especially in his early career.
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Later on, they would return to Greece and pass on their knowledge. Some of them remained in Munich, the so-called
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and he soon became a leading figure among Greek artists. Academism, realism, genre painting, upper middle class
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of art are two important artistic movements in Greece that followed parallel routes to Western Europe.
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devoted his attention to infants and children and he would later become the first Director of the new
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with portraiture, still life and genre painting. During this period in Paris the avant-garde
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Nano Chatzidakis, in From Byzantium to El Greco, p.49, Athens 1987, Byzantine Museum of Arts
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The second half of the 20th century has seen a range of acclaimed Greek artists, such as
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this artistic change are Konstantinos Parthenis, Konstantinos Maleas, Nikiphoros Lytras and
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in the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century, who exploited conquests of the
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specialized in historical painting and especially inspired by the 1821
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is art from the period between the emergence of the new independent
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as an artist capable "of stirring emotions as powerful as those of
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who, after Paris, settled in Belgium and became a part of the
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features, will be replaced in the end of the 19th century by
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Modern Greek art began to be developed around the time of
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state and the 20th century. As Mainland Greece was under
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rule for all four centuries, it was not a part of the
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concentrated on realistic depictions of Greek life.
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Index

Art in modern Greece

Athena
Leonidas Drosis
Academy of Athens (modern)
Greek
Ottoman
Renaissance
Western Europe
Crete
Ionian islands
Cretan School
Heptanese School
Greek diaspora
Munich School
Greek academic art of the 19th century

Nikolaos Gyzis

Georgios Jakobides
Romanticism
Munich
Karl von Piloty
fresco

Isar
Nikolaos Gysis
Munich Academy
portraiture
still life

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