{"id":6625,"date":"2014-06-02T10:26:11","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T08:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/?p=6625"},"modified":"2014-09-22T16:19:13","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T14:19:13","slug":"why-did-pollock-and-modigliani-like-el-grecos-painting-so-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/06\/02\/why-did-pollock-and-modigliani-like-el-grecos-painting-so-much\/","title":{"rendered":"In Madrid to discover why Manet, Pollock, Modigliani, or Kokoschka have all been fascinated by El Greco&#8217;s painting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-6625 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/06\/02\/why-did-pollock-and-modigliani-like-el-grecos-painting-so-much\/1_93\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"115\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/1_93.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"&quot;Fray Hortensio F\u00e9lix Paravicino&quot;, El Greco, Oil on canvas, 112.1 x 86.1 cm c. 1609 Boston, Museum of Fine Arts. Isaac Sweetser Fund.Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-6626\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-6626'>\n\t\t\t\tEl Greco, Fray Hortensio F\u00e9lix Paravicino, c. 1609, oil on canvas, 112.1 x 86.1 cm, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts. Isaac Sweetser Fund.Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/06\/02\/why-did-pollock-and-modigliani-like-el-grecos-painting-so-much\/2_88\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"117\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/2_88.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"&quot;A Gentleman with his Hand on his Chest&quot;, El Greco, Oil on canvas, 82 x 66 cm c. 1580 Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-6627\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-6627'>\n\t\t\t\tEl Greco, A Gentleman with his Hand on his Chest, c. 1580,\nOil on canvas, 82 x 66 cm, Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/06\/02\/why-did-pollock-and-modigliani-like-el-grecos-painting-so-much\/3_92\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"119\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/3_92.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"&quot;Laoco\u00f6n&quot;, El Greco, Oil on canvas, 137.5 x 172.5 cm c. 1608 - 1614 Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art. Samuel H. Kress Collection. 1946.18.1\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-6628\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-6628'>\n\t\t\t\tEl Greco, Laoco\u00f6n, c. 1608 &#8211; 1614, Oil on canvas, 137.5 x 172.5 cm, Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art. Samuel H. Kress Collection. 1946.18.1.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/06\/02\/why-did-pollock-and-modigliani-like-el-grecos-painting-so-much\/4_90\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"125\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/4_90.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"&quot;The Dead Christ with Angels&quot;, \u00c9douard Manet, Oil on canvas, 179.4 x 149.9 cm 1864 New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-6629\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-6629'>\n\t\t\t\t\u00c9douard Manet, The Dead Christ with Angels, 1864, Oil on canvas, 179.4 x 149.9 cm, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/06\/02\/why-did-pollock-and-modigliani-like-el-grecos-painting-so-much\/5_84\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"137\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/5_84.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"&quot;Lady in a Fur Wrap after El Greco&quot;, Paul C\u00e9zanne, Oil on canvas, 53 x 49 cm 1885 - 1886 London, Private Collection\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-6630\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-6630'>\n\t\t\t\tPaul C\u00e9zanne, Lady in a Fur Wrap after El Greco, 1885 &#8211; 1886, Oil on canvas, 53 x 49 cm\nLondon, Private Collection.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/06\/02\/why-did-pollock-and-modigliani-like-el-grecos-painting-so-much\/7_74\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"84\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/7_74.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"&quot;Paul Alexandre&quot;, Amedeo Modigliani, Oil on canvas, 81 x 45.6 cm 1913 Ruan, Mus\u00e9e des Beaux-Arts\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-6632\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-6632'>\n\t\t\t\tAmedeo Modigliani, Paul Alexandre, 1913, Oil on canvas, 81 x 45.6 cm. Ruan, Mus\u00e9e des Beaux-Arts.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On 24 June the exhibition<a href=\"https:\/\/www.museodelprado.es\/en\/exhibitions\/exhibitions\/at-the-museum\/el-greco-y-la-pintura-moderna\" target=\"_blank\"> \u201cEl Greco and Modern Painting\u201d<\/a> will open at the Prado, in Madrid. This show, which includes more than one hundred works, will investigate the relationship, at times complex, between the art of this old master and the works of some contemporary artists who, somehow, have interpreted his inheritance. The show will also prove the decisive influence that the artist had over on the origins of modern painting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition will start with a focus on the attraction that some of the most forward-looking French artists such as Manet and C\u00e9zanne felt for El Greco. The core of the exhibition will analyse the continuing influence that the artist exercised on Picasso. In addition, it will include the work of other artists whose relationship with Cubism led them to pursue different directions, such as Andr\u00e9 Derain, Robert Delaunay, Diego Rivera, Amedeo Modigliani, Cha\u00efm Soutine and Marc Chagall. The exhibition continues with El Greco as the reference point for the emergence and evolution of Expressionism among Central European artists such as Oskar Kokoschka and Egon Schiele and the German painters August Macke and Max Beckmann, as well as for the new aesthetics related to Surrealism.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There will also be a particular interest on the importance of El Greco in relation to the rise of modern painting in America where this artist\u2019s most expressive facets fascinated numerous painters, as evident in the works on display by Jos\u00e9 Clemente Orozco, Robert Matta and in particular, Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson Pollock. Finally, visitors will be able to appreciate how El Greco\u2019s innovations were frequently a reference point for the angst-ridden, expressive figuration of post-war European art, seen here in the work of Alberto Giacometti, Francis Bacon and Antonio Saura, some of whom produced overt homages to the artist.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reason why artists emulate, imitate, quote or copy works by their peers is not merely for the sake of delight as Aristotle maintained, but also to learn about their craft and explore aspects of the history of art\u201d wrote the scholar Estelle Alma Mar\u00e9 in her paper <a href=\"http:\/\/repository.up.ac.za\/bitstream\/handle\/2263\/18537\/Mare_ElGreco%282010%29.pdf?sequence=1\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cEl Greco, a mediator of modern painting\u201d<\/a>. \u201cHowever, not all artists of the past were or are copied in modern times. Therefore, the fact that El Greco (\u2026) has received renewed attention, not only from various art historians but also from individual painters during the late nineteenth, throughout the twentieth and also now in the twenty-first century, is worthy of art historical research\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; On 24 June the exhibition \u201cEl Greco and Modern Painting\u201d will open at the Prado, in Madrid. This show, which includes more than one hundred works, will investigate the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1793],"tags":[535],"class_list":["post-6625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-to-be-discovered","tag-el-greco"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}