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El Greco: The Earthly Transfigured |
| Section: THE ARTS / ART |
| Author: Susan Osmond |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2004 |
| Size: 2,793 Words, 17,262 Characters |
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El Greco's best-known paintings, with their writhing figures, lashing brushstrokes, and lightening-limned forms bursting from darkness, are unlike those of any other artist. Along with van Gogh, El Greco is regarded the epitome of the lone genius, spurning the art of his time to pursue his unique, interior vision. An exhibition currently at the Metropolitan, however, shows that he was not quite the lone wolf we generally take him for, and he came to his signature style slowly, through assimilating and ultimately transcending a variety of aesthetic outlooks and techniques.
The first major retrospective on the artist in twenty years, El Greco brings together about eighty paintings and spans the entirety of his career. At the Metropolitan Museum of Art through January 11, the show will tra...
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...them. In all his paintings, whether they were on religious or mythological subjects or were portraits of real people, the mature El Greco sought to penetrate the veil of the material to elicit spiritual essence. In doing so, he became an artist not only of his own time, but of all times.
For more information on the exhibition El Greco, go to www.metmuseum.org and www.nationalgallery.org.uk.
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