Neo Chorio, Crete Neo Chorio, Crete Neo Chorio is located 25km (15.5 miles) southeast of Chania in the center of the Apokoronas province. It was named Neo ("new") Chorio because it was a new village, but it was built on the ruins of an old village which was destroyed during the raids in Crete. It is built on a stone hill on a plain that is crossed by the river Mantamas. Smaller rivers include: the Anavreti, the Koliakoudes, etc. According to tradition, the small town was originally settled in the Late Minoan era, on a site located in the northernmost part of the
Neo-Fauvism Neo-Fauvism Neo-Fauvism was a poetic style of painting from the mid-1920s proposed as a challenge to Surrealism. The magazine "Cahiers d'Art" was launched in 1926 and its writers mounted a challenge to the Surrealist practice of automatism by seeing it not in terms of unconscious expression, but as another development of traditional artistry. They identified a group of artists as the exponents of this and termed them Neo-Fauves. Although these artists were later mostly forgotten, the movement had an effect of disillusioning the Surrealist group with the technique of graphic automatism as a revolutionary means of by-passing conventional aesthetics, ideology