Word: grecos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...notion is not so weird as might appear at first thought; El Greco, for one, carried it out successfully. So far, Hancock has failed to do so. His paintings are uneasy compromises that require sympathy in order to give pleasure. But for himself and for what he is 'trying to do-which includes seeing the world-the lanky, shaggy-haired artist has been finding sympathy all across the continent...
...whole new directorate-know that they had traveled a long way toward that goal. The first-nighters saw & heard a Don Carlo that glowed with the high sheen of months of work and polish. Stunningly if starkly scened in grey and glowingly costumed in El Greco reds, it was beautifully sung, cleanly staged and intelligently acted...
...last portraits El Greco painted was of a man dead some 70 years. The picture is one of the most striking, and least familiar, in a fine new book of reproductions released last week under the brief title, El Greco (Harry N. Abrams; $10). In the accompanying text, Critic Leo Bronstein explains that El Greco painted his portrait of Spanish Cardinal Tavera from a death mask, kept the whole picture correspondingly austere...
Posthumous portraits are among the toughest commissions artists get. Today they work from photographs of the subject, but posed photos are apt to miss the revealing gesture or the characteristic turn of lip, nostril or eyelid that painters look for. El Greco, with only a rigid mask for a starting point, made a virtue of his difficulty. Cardinal Tavera's imagined hand, with its long tapering fingers, and his dark, luminous, meditative eyes perhaps have more of the painter himself than of the cardinal about them; they reappear in most of El Greco's works. But they intensify...
...knows if the artist ever got around to painting himself. Some say he did, once or twice, and that one of the mourners in his Burial of Count Orgaz represents El Greco. The picture commemorates a legend that St. Stephen and St. Augustine descended from Heaven to help bury the 14th Century noble. Historians have guessed that the little boy standing before St. Stephen is the artist's son, and that the face peering at the spectator over the saint's head is El Greco...