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El Greco, Modernist Hero

by David Carrier December 7, 2019December 6, 2019

Set the works of El Greco alongside those of Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, or Pablo Picasso, and you can see why they admired and copied him.

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The Influence of Painting on Balenciaga’s Visual Universe

Avatar photo by Lauren Moya Ford July 15, 2019August 29, 2020

An exhibition at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum demonstrates that though it would seem impossible to replicate El Greco’s gleaming fabrics in real life, Balenciaga manages to do just that.

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Beyond Drips: Investigating Jackson Pollock’s Many Artistic Phases

by Daniel Larkin April 18, 2016April 19, 2016

“Come over here to the drips,” a visitor at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) advised friends.

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The Merits of Old Masters’ B-Sides, at the Frick

by Peter Malone January 12, 2015April 15, 2016

Masterpieces from the Scottish National Gallery, on view in the East Gallery of the Frick Collection, is a gathering of ten paintings analogous to the cohort of masterpieces in the Frick’s adjacent West Gallery. Visitors are left free to consider each as representing a unique, if not significant moment in each artist’s career.

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Stop and Smell the Smoke: El Greco and His Houdini Most High

by Barry Nemett December 13, 2014December 17, 2014

El Greco came back from the dead. “The Greek,” his real name, Domenikos Theotokopoulos, moved to Venice and Rome before finally settling in Toledo, where he became one of Spain’s most well known painters.

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