ABSTRACT
The Greek New Realists were a group of left-wing artists during the dictatorship. They aimed to define and produce a “critical realist” painting, appropriating images from mass media, commodity culture and occasionally from Pop art. Their work criticized consumer culture, the commodification of art and the political status quo. The American Pop artists have given us no more than a type of painting that grows out of a society and expresses it, but which is ultimately transformed into a consumer good itself through the processes used to promote it. There are just analytical art and rehabilitative art, which is repressed, distorted and deliberately and irresponsibly critiqued in accordance with the interests vested in the particular context. Yes, but the terms Critical Realism and “socialized art” do not arise purely from a work’s aesthetic; they stem primarily from the manner in which the work will function on completion.
