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26 août 2014 · This year is the 400th anniversary of El Greco’s death but his works can feel shockingly modern. Jason Farago examines how his works influenced Manet, Cézanne, Picasso and Pollock.
El Greco has been characterized by modern scholars as an artist so individual that he belongs to no conventional school. [3] He is best known for tortuously elongated figures and often fantastic or phantasmagorical pigmentation, marrying Byzantine traditions with those of Western painting. [7]
24 juin 2014 · Following the fascination Velázquez held for the realist painters, El Greco – who was then little known – attracted the most innovative artists, such as Manet and Cézanne.
Today it is considered one of his masterpieces, and noted as one of Édouard Manet's favorite paintings. This early example of El Greco's work presents a synthesis of the two major influences that define him: the Renaissance masters and the Byzantine iconic tradition.
El Greco is one of the few old master painters who enjoys widespread popularity. Like Vermeer, Piero della Francesca, and Botticelli, he was rescued from obscurity by an avid group of nineteenth-century collectors, critics, and artists and became one of the select members of the modern pantheon of great painters.
The Dead Christ with Angels. Edouard Manet French. 1864. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 810. Manet identified the source for this painting, the first of several religious scenes, in the inscription on the rock: the Gospel according to Saint John.
View all 169 artworks. El Greco lived in the XVI – XVII cent., a remarkable figure of Spanish-Greek Mannerism (Late Renaissance). Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
