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...GRECO Those images of ecstasy and agony make the 16th century painter seem a figure of our time...
...weren't for Van Gogh, who but El Greco would be our best symbol for the individual genius, the artist working in a style unlike any other of his time? All that lashing brushwork; the torqued, lunging figures; the saints stretched as tight as thunderbolts by their passion for God--if ever there was an artist whose work seems edged all around by fire, it's El Greco...
...still pronounced him "bizarre" overall. But now, after the fractured space of Cezanne, the shivering stridencies of Klimt and Kokoschka, the old Greek is not as much of a challenge anymore. There are even trace elements of his tussling space in the tangled drippings of Jackson Pollock. What El Greco remains is a jolt to the senses. In the superabundance of his strange devices, there are still things that shock. In the El Greco show that opens this week at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, there are nearly 80 of his canvases, including many...
...show, which runs through Jan. 11 and then travels to London, aims partly to underline the ways in which El Greco was not so much another of art history's lone wolves as he was a man connected to the prevailing lines of art, religion and philosophy in Europe at the time of the Counter Reformation. In the catalog, David Davies, the El Greco scholar who organized the show, patiently draws him down to earth. Then you look at the pictures, and El Greco's irreducible strangeness simply strikes you all over again...
...main office is tucked away from big city life in a pastoral setting fit for an Abercrombie photo shoot. It’s a 20-minute ride down a long windy road replete with deer and bunnies—one can just imagine half-naked twentysomethings frolicking, cavorting and Greco-Roman wrestling amidst the pines. The road ends at a huge office building situated on acres of land. As the raging bonfires located throughout the property (maintained by a professional fire attendant to create a camp-like vibe) suggest, this is no ordinary merchandising...