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Thứ Sáu, 16 tháng 5, 2014

El Greco Paintings And Manet Paintings

By Darren Hartley


Following the footsteps of Greek artists, El Greco paintings show mastery in Post-Byzantine art. A great majority of the time El Greco spent in Rome was used to develop a style, adopting elements from both Mannerism and Venetian Renaissance.

It was in Toledo Spain where El Greco truly blossomed and the best masterful El Greco paintings were produced. The focal point of his work was highly expressive and visionary religious works. He rarely ventured away from this genre but when he did, he produced compelling portraits, landscape paintings, mythological works and sculptures.

Undulating forms, epic scale and expressive distortions were the notable aspects of El Greco paintings in his later years. The most important element of painting, according to El Greco, is color and because of this, he believes that color should have primacy over form. Dramatization and not description was the focus of his more mature works. His audience is directly affected by his works because of their strong spiritual and emotional content.

Depictions of everyday scenes of people and city life are what Manet paintings are all about. In the transition from realism to impressionism, Edouard Manet was considered a leading artist. The Luncheon on the Grass and Olympia are among his most famous works.

Most arresting among Manet paintings is a portrait showing a young woman wearing a black ribbon around her neck and a dashingly blue ribbon in her hair. The model for this portrait was Victorine Meurent, who also happens to be the model in one of the most notorious paintings in the world, also done by Edouard.

Victorine posed as a prostitute, completely naked except for a black ribbon around her neck and a satin slipper on her foot, in Olympia, listed among the most famous of Manet paintings. She posed as a naked woman again, this time in the company of two fully clothed man in The Luncheon on the Grass during a picnic. She was a bullfighter in very unsuitable shoes in Mlle V in the Costume of an Espada.




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