To mark Greek Independence Day on March 25, Marina
Lambraki-Plaka, Professor Emeritus of Art History and Director
of the National Gallery – Alexandros Soutsos Museum,
will discuss Modern Greek art, covering the following topics:

The foundation of the new state:
• The London Protocol (1832)
• The New Kingdom of Greece and king Otto
• The Quest for a Past
• Neoclassicism
• School of Arts
• The role of fine arts in the new state
• The role of history painting
• The School of Munich
• Bourgeois Society and the Arts
• The National Ideology of the "Great Idea"

20th centrury
• Toward a Greek Modernism
• 1900-1922: Greek Light and Color
• "Omas Techni" (Art Group)
• Interwar period
• 1922: The Asia Minor Catastrophe
• "Trauma" and Response
• The Thirties Generation: Tradition and Modernism