As Liedtke wrote, “In conception and execution, this painting is one of El Greco’s most extraordinary works and a quintessential example of his late expressionist style.” Today, El Greco is ...

who found in El Greco a prototype for their expressionist paintings, which freighted landscapes and portraits with emotion. Even Jackson Pollock, not the first artist you might name as a disciple ...

And if Cézanne is missing from the list, it’s only because he’s been assigned the more dominant role of El Greco’s fraternal heir. The German Expressionist painter Franz Marc seems to have ...

They spotted something very modern in his work, some 300 years before Abstract Expressionism. Now El Greco has become one of the West's most popular painters. If the artist only knew, Sanchez says.

A discerning reader might point out that according to the criteria described above El Greco should be described as an Expressionist painter. True, but in practice, the term is applied mainly to ...