Monday, 12 May 2014

El Greco And Manet Paintings

By Darren Hartley


El Greco paintings show mastery in Post-Byzantine art, following the footsteps of Greek artists. El Greco spent a great majority of his time in Rome developing his style, where he adopted elements from both Mannerism and Venetian Renaissance.

The best El Greco paintings were produced in Toledo, Spain at a time when El Greco truly blossomed as an artist. The focus of his work was on highly expressive and visionary religious works. The rare times he ventured away from the genre produced compelling portraits, landscape paintings, mythological works and sculptures.

Particularly notable for their undulating forms, epic scale and expressive distortions are the later El Greco paintings. Color, for El Greco, is the most important element in painting. As a matter of fact, he even declared that color should have primacy over form. In his mature works, he had the tendency to dramatize instead of describe. His works in general directly affected his audience because of the strong spiritual emotion they convey.

Manet paintings are known for their portrayal of everyday scenes of people and city life. A leading artist in the transition from realism to impressionism, Edouard Manet was made famous by his works like The Luncheon on the Grass and Olympia.

A portrait showing a young woman called Victorine Meurent, wearing a black ribbon around her neck and a dashingly blue ribbon in her hair, is one of the most arresting among Manet paintings. A constant model for Edouard, Victorine was also the model for one of the most notorious paintings in the world, also attributed to 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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