Τhe various artistic movements of Academic art, in narrow dependence to the influences of Munich School, the necessity of return in the Byzantium and the popular culture in the painting and the author's production of Photis Kontoglou, as well as the ethnocentric perception in the contemplation of the generation of '30, the abstraction after the war, critical realism in the generation of ‘60, constitute recipients of the influence of social and historical situations in the multifunctional process of Greek artistic expression