Thessaloniki, the capital city of Greek Macedonia, is currently a large city, economically dominant in Northern Greece, and the most important cultural centre in the Southern Balkans. A comparison to Athens reveals significant differences on the economic and cultural levels, in spite of the city being called “co-capital”, by analogy to the byzantine title of “Symvasileuousa” attributed to Thessaloniki with regard to Constantinople during the Byzantine period. Art in Thessaloniki presents certain characteristics which set it apart from the capital of the modern Greek state, and historians often refer to the “School of Thessaloniki”, a reference to the introvert nature of its art (literature and visual arts). The city’s proximity to Mount Athos and its rich cultural heritage has bestowed upon the artists in Thessaloniki a particular spirituality and a tendency towards abstractionism. On the other hand, Thessaloniki was liberated 90 years later than Athens and other parts of the country, and this deprived the city from an early connection to the West. Another restraining factor has been the military dictatorship imposed on the country in 1967 which lasted for seven years and has been a critical factor for the belated entrance of new modernist ideas in Greece. May of 1968 has been a social and cultural phenomenon but has had minimal influence on domestic art. Metamodernism has been a phenomenon which has been minimally present in the field of visual arts. Nevertheless, artists, such as Giorgos Lazongas, Yorgos Tsakiris, and Dimitris Xonoglou, professors of visual arts in various schools of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, are included among those who have demonstrated an admirable ability to adapt to the new reality.