El Greco & la pintura moderna, [exposición Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, entre el 24 de junio y el 5 de octubre de 2014]

Museo Nacional del Prado. Madrid

2014

1 vol. (342 p.) ; ill. en noir et en coul. front., portr., couv. ill. en coul.

30 cm

castillan, espagnol

Exposition, Madrid, Espagne, Museo del Prado, 2014

978-84-8480-294-5

The rediscovery of El Greco was very important to the development of painting in the last third of the nineteenth century and throughout much of the twentieth. Following the fascination Velázquez held for the realist painters, El Greco - who was then little known - attracted the most innovative artists, such as Manet and Cézanne. He also interested Spanish painters, among them Zuloaga, who owned "The Vision of Saint John" (New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art). This work was decisive in the emergence of Cubism for its influence on Picasso, who regarded El Greco as the most outstanding old master. El Greco was also pivotal in the spread of Cubism through Delaunay's Orphism and the works of Derain, Modigliani, Rivera and the Czech avant-garde. --- The first exhibition of El Greco's work at the Museo del Prado (1902), the formation of new collections that related his painting to modern artists, the appearance of the first art historical studies, written by Manuel B. Cossío (1908) and August Mayer (1911), and the critical appreciations of Julius Meier-Graefe in his Spanish Journey (1910) and those of Maurice Barrès (1911), helped spread knowledge of the artist's oeuvre. His works, chiefly the Laocoön(Washington, National Gallery of Art), provided inspiration to Expressionists in Central Europe, such as Beckmann, Macke, Kokoschka, Hofer, Steinhardt and Korteweg. He was also important to Jewish artists active in Paris, such as Soutine and Chagall, and to the Surrealists, as evidenced by the cases of Masson and Domínguez. ---
El Greco played a particularly prominent role in shaping modern painting in the Americas, where the most expressive aspects of his art held great fascination in Mexico - as may be seen in the works of Orozco - and in the United States, where artists like Benton, Pollock and Matta (who came from Surrealism) were exploring abstraction. El Greco continued to be influential on the expressive figurative art of post-war Europe, as may be seen in the works of Giacometti, Bacon and Saura, as well as in Picasso's late oeuvre. (site musée)

El Greco y la pintura moderna/JAVIER BARÓN -- Que sus pinturas no se equivoquen con Tiziano. La construcción pictórica del Greco/LETICIA RUIZ GÓMEZ -- El coleccionismo del Greco en España [1808-1902] /PEDRO J. MARTÍNEZ PLAZA -- La influencia del Greco en la pintura moderna, del siglo XIX a la difusión del cubismo/JAVIER BARÓN -- El Greco y la modernidad expresionista. Entre la interioridad y la abstracción/VERONIKA SCHROEDER -- La influencia del Greco en la pintura norteamericana del siglo XX/JEFFREY SCHRADER -- El Greco y la pintura europea: del surrealismo a las nuevas figuraciones/JAVIER PORTÚS..

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