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Abstract landscape painter Albert Alcalay once said that as an artist, “you are an explorer of yourself...
...resolved the question later, as both went on to become documentary filmmakers, with Tranchin working for PBS in Texas and Moore in Maryland. In 1999, they received a project proposal from another former classmate, Rob D. Eustis ’78. They were to direct a film about the painter with the enormous palette from the third floor of the Carpenter Center, whom Tranchin had admired but who was only vaguely familiar to Moore...
...have to hold a brush,” he says. “It’s part of my daily routine.” Tranchin and Moore understood this view of art and its connection to Alcalay’s past, which emerges in their interviews with the painter. “All the various moments of his life suddenly become milestones,” Moore said. “That’s how the structure of the film evolved...
...contemporaries, he never painted himself. Our only clue to El Greco's appearance may lie in The Adoration of the Shepherds (ca. 1612-1614), which he painted to hang above his own tomb. The central figure kneeling before the Christ child is, some scholars believe, an image of the painter. A man with similar features appears in other works, sometimes with the direct gaze typical of self-portraits. El Greco often put his adopted city, Toledo, in the background of his works. A blurred view of its fortified walls can be seen at the foot of the Virgin...
...rushing river. The silvery buildings are emphasized by dark halos; an unseen sun makes the clouds glow. No religious drama is going on anywhere: the only figures are manikins fishing, swimming, washing clothes. Yet this may be the most spiritual work he ever produced - a fitting symbol for a painter devoted to illuminating life's ethereal side...