Following the footsteps of Greek artists, El Greco paintings show mastery in Post-Byzantine art. A great majority of the time El Greco spent in Rome was used to develop a style, adopting elements from both Mannerism and Venetian Renaissance.
It was in Toledo Spain where El Greco truly blossomed and the best El Greco paintings were produced. The focal point of his work was highly expressive and visionary religious works. He rarely ventured away from this genre but when he did, he 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.
Manet paintings depicted everyday scenes of people and city life. Edouard Manet was a leading artist in the transition from realism to impressionism. His most famous works include The Luncheon on the Grass and Olympia.
A portrait showing a young woman called Victorine Meurent, wearing a black ribbon around her neck and a dashingly blue ribbon in her hair, is one of the most arresting among Manet paintings. A constant model for Edouard, Victorine was also the model for one of the most notorious paintings in the world, also attributed to 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.
It was in Toledo Spain where El Greco truly blossomed and the best El Greco paintings were produced. The focal point of his work was highly expressive and visionary religious works. He rarely ventured away from this genre but when he did, he 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.
Manet paintings depicted everyday scenes of people and city life. Edouard Manet was a leading artist in the transition from realism to impressionism. His most famous works include The Luncheon on the Grass and Olympia.
A portrait showing a young woman called Victorine Meurent, wearing a black ribbon around her neck and a dashingly blue ribbon in her hair, is one of the most arresting among Manet paintings. A constant model for Edouard, Victorine was also the model for one of the most notorious paintings in the world, also attributed to 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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