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- Title
WHY MODERN ARTISTS COPIED OR QUOTED EL GRECO.
- Authors
Maré, Estelle Alma
- Abstract
The article explores the reasons why modern artists copied or quoted paintings of El Greco, a Byzantine icon painter. It states that artists are copying works by their peers to learn about their craft and explore aspects of the history of art. It traces the way in which individual modernist painters explored Greco's manner of painting. It discusses the practices of several artists who acknowledge Greco's paintings, including Gustave Courbet, who learned painting by copying the pictures of master artists, Paul Cézanne, who copied Greco's Portrait of a Woman with an Ermine Shawl, and Oscar Kokoschka, who makes a landscape that recalls Greco's View of Toledo painting.
- Subjects
ARTISTS; GRECO, ca. 1541-1614; ICON painters; ART history; HISTORY of painting; COURBET, Gustave, 1819-1877; CEZANNE, Paul, 1839-1906; KOKOSCHKA, Oskar, 1886-1980; LANDSCAPES
- Publication
Scope: Contemporary Research Topics (Art & Design), 2009, Issue 4, p135
- ISSN
1177-5653
- Publication type
Article