Theodoros Markellos — Greek painter, landscapes and seascapes

Critique of visitors and art in Greece

Critique of visitors and art in Greece — Theodoros Markellos archive

Press Clipping — 1957

They do not stand still merely because millions of people know and visit Greece for and because of its artworks.
One cannot feel that only art is truth and impervious to time, while everything else is at least useful and transient because the other things flee or EVOLUTION, surpasses and destroys them.
The visitors think that it is easier for us to divide them into pairs rather than classes. Divide into three. First: Consists of the only visitors of masterpieces. Artistic and stabilizing. A common characteristic is the vanity of social appearance and worldly information. They chat and gossip among themselves with their backs to the works, thus blocking those who want to see them.
Second: People with a total family income above 15,000 monthly family

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