By Darren Hartley
Mastery in Post-Byzantine art is shown in El Greco paintings, in the footsteps of famous Greek artists. While in Rome, El Greco devoted a great majority of his time to the development of a style from elements of 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.
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.
Later El Greco paintings were particularly notable for their undulating forms, epic scale and expressive distortions. For El Greco, color is the most important element in painting. In this regard, he declared that color should have primacy over form. He dramatized rather than described in his more mature works. The strong spiritual emotion in his works directly affected his audience.
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.
In Olympia, accredited to be among the most famous of Manet paintings, Victorine posed as a prostitute, completely in the nude except for a black ribbon around her neck and a satin slipper on her foot. In The Luncheon on the Grass, she posed as a naked woman surrounded by two fully dressed men enjoying a picnic. In Mlle V in the Costume of an Espada, she posed as a bullfighter in very unsuitable shoes.
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.
In Olympia, accredited to be among the most famous of Manet paintings, Victorine posed as a prostitute, completely in the nude except for a black ribbon around her neck and a satin slipper on her foot. In The Luncheon on the Grass, she posed as a naked woman surrounded by two fully dressed men enjoying a picnic. In Mlle V in the Costume of an Espada, she posed as a bullfighter in very unsuitable shoes.
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.
In Olympia, accredited to be among the most famous of Manet paintings, Victorine posed as a prostitute, completely in the nude except for a black ribbon around her neck and a satin slipper on her foot. In The Luncheon on the Grass, she posed as a naked woman surrounded by two fully dressed men enjoying a picnic. In Mlle V in the Costume of an Espada, she posed as a bullfighter in very unsuitable shoes.
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In Olympia, accredited to be among the most famous of Manet paintings, Victorine posed as a prostitute, completely in the nude except for a black ribbon around her neck and a satin slipper on her foot. In The Luncheon on the Grass, she posed as a naked woman surrounded by two fully dressed men enjoying a picnic. In Mlle V in the Costume of an Espada, she posed as a bullfighter in very unsuitable shoes.
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