Word: grecos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...while the skirted Evzones hammered at Mussolini's Albanian Army, the greatest Greek since antiquity did his belated bit for Greece. For a great Greek, he was practically a modern, having been born on the island of Crete exactly 400 years ago. His name: Domenikos Theotokopoulos, nicknamed El Greco ("The Greek"). His aid to embattled Greece: a one-man show (the first and finest in the U. S. in many years) of 18 of his paintings at Manhattan's Knoedler Galleries, the proceeds to go to the Greek War Relief Association. The fanatic fire of his ghostlike saints...
...himself a 24-room palace, a beautiful wife named Doña Jerónima de las Cuevas, a scholar's library, musicians from Venice to play for him at mealtimes. But to the Spaniards he was never a real Spaniard. They called him, condescendingly, ''El Greco...
...bent toward the monastery. Composer and pianist, he was trained in Greece and Germany, built the orchestra of the Athens Conservatory, made his first U. S. splash in Boston. He looks somewhat like a figure from a can vas by another great Greek, Domenico Theotocopuli (called El Greco in Spain, where he lived). The Mitropoulitan way of playing music is a bit El Grecoesque: lean, angular, edgy, sometimes distorted...
...place he has recently come to occupy, on the grounds that he is highly over-rated as a painter. Now whether or not Van Gogh is over-rated must remain a point for further discussion. It can be said, however, that along with such men as El Greco, Brueghel, Cezanne, and a few others, he has succeeded in stamping every painting which he has executed with the seal of his own unique personality. Many artists have excelled, but few have been as convincing in the field of self-assertion as Van Gogh...
...content from the painting itself. Now it is difficult, almost impossible, for a literal artist, one who does not paint in what we consider abstract terms, to convey a feeling or idea about an impersonal universal in a successful manner. For example, even so great an artist as El Greco could not, if he worked within his own limits, express the idea, "geometry is beautiful," without detracting from the central idea by using in his work people and extraneous matter, for he is a literal painter, and an idea such as the one suggested cannot be fully expressed...