ART PEOPLE! PROFESSIONALS ONLY! What style of painting did El Greco paint in?

Question

I am doing a report and couldnt find out, and there werent any good books at my school's library so please help. Much appreciated. 10 points to first correct answer.

i mean like: impressionist realist...

Answer 1

okay, here goes.... El Greco is one of those artist who's style doesn't neatly fit into any one category. He is considered a Spanish mannerist (elongated figures and swirling draperies), but the intense emotion that's in his work is more "proto" Baroque. Most of his work was painted very quickly but it was also, at the same time, carefully controlled. Maybe that will be enough to get you started. Try looking up one of his paintings ("The burial of Count Orgaz"....yes that is how its spelled), you might have better luck. He is one of my personal favorites

Answer 2

i am a pro artist but not an art historian . He was a mannerist which means his paintings are emotional and mystic . he came after the renaissance. Look up El Greco on google . The best book is History of ART by Gombrich¨which is the best

Answer 3

El Greco's style. rooted in Byzantine religious art buy strongly relfecting Tintoretto's Venetian love of rich color and loose brushwork, was the ideal vehicle to express in paint the intense spirituality of the two great Spanish mystics, Teresa of Avila and her follower John of the Cross.

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Answer 4

Art historian Max Dvořák was the first scholar to connect El Greco's art with Mannerism and Antinaturalism.[44] Modern scholars characterize El Greco's theory as "typically Mannerist" and pinpoint its sources in the Neo-Platonism of the Renaissance.[45] According to Brown, the painter endeavored to create a sophisticated form of art.[46] Nicholas Penny, senior curator at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, asserts that "once in Spain, El Greco was able to create a style of his own -- one that disavowed most of the descriptive ambitions of painting".[47]

In his mature works El Greco demonstrated a characteristic tendency to dramatize rather than to describe.[1] The strong spiritual emotion transfers from painting directly to the audience. According to Pacheco, El Greco's perturbed, violent and at times seemingly careless-in-execution art was due to a studied effort to acquire a freedom of style.[43] The preference of El Greco for exceptionally tall and slender figures and elongated compositions, which served both the expressive purposes and the aesthetic principles of the master, led him to disregard the laws of nature and elongate his compositions to ever greater extents, particularly when they were destined for altarpieces.[48] The anatomy of the human body becomes even more otherworldly in the painter's mature works; for The Virgin of the Immaculate Conception El Greco asked to lengthen the altarpiece itself by another 1.5 feet "because in this way the form will be perfect and not reduced, which is the worst thing that can happen to a figure'". A significant innovation of El Greco's mature works is the interweaving between form and space; a reciprocal relationship is developed between the two which completely unifies the painting surface. This interweaving would re-emerge three centuries later in the works of Cézanne and Picasso.[48]

Another characteristic of El Greco's mature style is the use of light. As Brown notes, "each figure seems to carry its own light within or reflects the light that emanates from an unseen source".[49] Fernando Marias and Agustín Bustamante García, the scholars who transcribed El Greco's handwritten notes, connect the power that the painter gives to light with the ideas underlying Christian Neo-Platonism.[50] Professor Nicos Hadjinicolaou notes the manner in which El Greco could adjust his style in accordance with his surroundings and stresses the importance of Toledo for the complete development of El Greco's mature style.[51]

Answer 5

Right now I'm into figurative art, French impressionism. I like Isaac Maimon, Tarkay, Kathleen Lack, among others.

Answer 6

Renaissance artist... Similar to Da Vinci...

Answer 7

He was an "expressive- pictorial" artist with an intricate knowledge of color and the implied meanings of color in religious art.

Answer 8

I just can't wait to see how many professional artists are on here! OK there's one.

Answer 9

abstract images of Byzantine art, in mosaic or miniature, powerful and impressive

Answer 10

manneristic late renaissance