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.
El Greco truly blossomed as an artist in Toledo, Spain where the best El Greco paintings were produced. It was in highly expressive and visionary religious works where El Greco truly excelled. Compelling portraits, landscape paintings, mythological works and sculptures by El Greco were also part of his artwork during the rare times he ventured away from the religious genre.
Undulating forms, epic scale and expressive distortions were the notable aspects of El Greco paintings in his later years. The most important element of painting, according to El Greco, is color and because of this, he believes that color should have primacy over form. Dramatization and not description was the focus of his more mature works. His audience is directly affected by his works because of their strong spiritual and emotional content.
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.
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.
El Greco truly blossomed as an artist in Toledo, Spain where the best El Greco paintings were produced. It was in highly expressive and visionary religious works where El Greco truly excelled. Compelling portraits, landscape paintings, mythological works and sculptures by El Greco were also part of his artwork during the rare times he ventured away from the religious genre.
Undulating forms, epic scale and expressive distortions were the notable aspects of El Greco paintings in his later years. The most important element of painting, according to El Greco, is color and because of this, he believes that color should have primacy over form. Dramatization and not description was the focus of his more mature works. His audience is directly affected by his works because of their strong spiritual and emotional content.
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.
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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