Bailey sees in that aspect of El Greco’s art part of its appeal to modern eyes. “In some ways the 20th century responded to him as a visionary expressionist,” Bailey said. “Until the late ...

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 ...

How did El Greco move from painting icons on the island of Crete to the elongated, expressionist works that made him famous and influenced artists like Pablo Picasso and Paul Cézanne? To mark the ...

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.

El Greco was recognised then as an expressionist spirit for his quivering, elongated figures and his sacrifice of realism for the sake of a heightened spirituality. The exhibition offers a prime ...

They span "masterpieces of the late 19th century to pioneering examples of early abstraction and expressionism," the ... Weinberg's collection – "From El Greco to Mondrian" – which toured ...