Word: grecos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...formulations of our culture are based entirely on ignorance and an almost deliberate perversity. But to dwell on the intellectual absurdity of a theological doctrine is as irrelevant, to an understanding either of the doctrine itself or of religion in general, as ridicule of the linear distortions of El Greco or Diego Ribera would be to an understandings of art. These distortions must of course, be studied, and may be laughed at, but not at the expense of the deeper meaning. That there is any deeper meaning seems to have escaped certain local "theologians." Lynn F. White...
...possible to have a profound knowledge of literature and never leave your bedroom. To speak authoritatively about, painting you must travel. To appreciate El Greco alone a critic must have visited galleries in London, Dresden, Madrid, Toledo, New York. This week Pittsburgh, Pa. repeated its annual claim to a place on the art critic's itinerary. The 30th annual International Exhibition of the Carnegie Institute opened. On hand were 496 pictures by 281 artists from 16 countries. Judges were assembled. Prizes were awarded. It was a big affair...
...Greco," Professor Post. Fogg Small Room...
...Caprices, and Proverbs, all of which are well represented in the Fogg Museum display. Another series is that of the Bull-fight drawings, which show well his tendency towards movement rather than form. It is this character that shows him as the originator, along with his countryman, El Greco, of the modern expressionistic...
...paintings, which form the most important part of the bequest, are the works of several of the old masters. They are mostly of the Italian Renaissance School, with a few Dutch and Spanish pictures. Among the latter is a small canvas of El Greco's "Christ Driving the Money-changers from the Temple." The "Portrait of a Preacher" by Franz Hals, is also included in the collection, as is Murillo's "Holy Family...