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Painting materials. El Greco painted many of his paintings on fine canvas and employed a viscous oil medium. He painted with the usual pigments of his period such as azurite, lead-tin-yellow, vermilion, madder lake, ochres and red lead, but he seldom used the expensive natural ultramarine. Suggested Byzantine affinities
El Greco Famous Paintings. 1. View of Toledo. There are two landscapes by El Greco that have survived to the present day; the other is View and Plan of Toledo, also known as Vista de Toledo. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is home to a painting titled View of Toledo.
Domínikos Theotokópoulos, dit Le Greco, est un peintre, sculpteur et architecte, né en 1541 à Candie, en Crète, alors une possession de la République de Venise, et mort le 7 avril 1614, à Tolède. Il est considéré comme le peintre fondateur de l’École espagnole du XVIe siècle.
El Greco has been characterized by modern scholars as an artist so individual that he belongs to no conventional school. He is best known for tortuously elongated figures and often fantastic or phantasmagorical pigmentation, marrying Byzantine traditions with those of Western painting.
Redécouverte au milieu du XIXe siècle par les romantiques français en particulier, sa peinture atypique a suscité des commentaires innombrables, souvent en contradiction avec les faits historiques avérés. Sa singularité a influencé de nombreux artistes du XXe siècle, parmi lesquels Pablo Picasso et Jackson Pollock c . Biographie. Débuts en Crète.
No other great Western artist moved mentally—as El Greco did—from the flat symbolic world of Byzantine icons to the world-embracing, humanistic vision of Renaissance painting, and then on to a predominantly conceptual kind of art.
The haunting intensity of El Greco's paintings—resulting from their unnaturally long figures and strong contrasts of color and light—has invited a kind of mythmaking about his life and art. Following his death, El Greco's work fell into obscurity and, after its rediscovery in the nineteenth century, was often misunderstood.
Il y a 2 jours · El Greco. 1541 - 1614. Domenikos Theotokopoulos, known as El Greco, 'The Greek', was born in Crete, which was then a Venetian possession. El Greco trained in Venice, where he developed his intense, colourful Mannerist style.
This Spanish painter of Greek origin was born in the capital city of the Isle of Crete, which then belonged to the Republic of Venice. His family was Greek, but probably Catholic rather than Orthodox, and its members collaborated with the colonial powers.
Domenikos Theotokopoulos, called El Greco, was born in 1541 in Candia, the capital of Crete. In 1566 he was recorded in Candia as a master painter. El Greco probably went to Italy to master the modern Western Renaissance style.
