El Greco: The Great Artist Forgotten For Three Centuries | Raiders Of The Lost Art
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How El Greco's work was unappreciated in his lifetime, but went on to influence future generations of artists.
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The "painting" in these reenactments always make me giggle. They're like 〰️🖌️🧐
I fell in love with the works of El Greco as a child. They terrified me but I couldn't stop looking at them. He's remained on my short list of favorite painters and always will!
There are those of us..that somehow almost fell like we are in some kind of a forbidden…little known club…that sees El Greco as an alchemist….an absolute master of expression..then and now. In terms of fear…we’ll nobody quite approaches Goya in that department…as I see it…
Toledo City is a must see!!
Nobody talks about this greatest of all painters....he did it all, with light and space....absolutely wonderful.
Haha, he asked to paint over the Sistine Chapel, said he could do better. I like that attitude.
I had an event of sorts while looking at an El Greco. A good size exhibition of his paintings was at the National Gallery in DC. I was looking at the knee of Christ in a crucifixion painting, looking close, a foot away, and the way it was painted amazed me. It was a life size painting, hung so the knee was at my eye level. The brushstrokes were so bold and confident, perfect flesh color over blue under painting. Then I gasped, the blue under painting seemed to pulse, like the blue was oxygen weak blood moved by a heartbeat. I stepped back and looked at the whole painting and realized it was of the moment Christ died. What I saw was Christ's last heartbeat. I was honestly moved, there was a shift in my being. I could have cried if I wasn't so amazed. I understood the true power of art at that moment.
I'm an artist, draw and paint. I do nice, pretty paintings, landscapes, lots of color. I call myself an artist, but my goodness, how can I put myself in a field of endeavor with these greats. They had something I don't have. I think a mighty spirit directed them. When El Greco talks about spirits whispering to him he might not be just talking poetic.
Anyway, I always liked El Greco, he was an interesting painter to me. But that day of the event, he became something otherworldly. The only other time I was moved by art like that was seeing Stevie Ray Vaughan live in a small venue before he became so famous. I left that concert naturally high.
They are correct when they said it would take 3 centuries for the world to appreciate Dominikos Theotokopoulos [El Greco]; I agree his offer to re-paint the Sistine Chapel took attitude which is terrific; BUT I bet Michaelangelo was thinking: " ...where the hell was he 10 years ago when l tried to talk Pope Julius out of me taking this job."; To criticize Michaelangelo's sculptures takes a level of attitude to another level. [REad: Michaelangelo and The Pope's Ceiling]; I'm sure your paintings are quite accomplished. I'm also a painter and I draw but I don't compare myself. I just try to learn from them. That's all you can do. I can tell you many of the artists we hold near and dear also felt the same of the artists before them.
NELSON X Thank you for sharing that moment of transcendance- what a wonderful experience that must have been for you!
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Thank you Li Li. I think you must be extra sensitive art wise to understand the power of the moment for me. What I told is more than an interesting story. It's an astounding story. There is no way El Greco did that deliberately. He was a great artist, but he wasn't a magic man. I think it was something in me that triggered the event. I was ripe for a spiritual knock on the noggin, and El Greco provided that extra touch.
Yes, it was amazing. We all look at paintings and are blown away by how realistic some are, or the color, or the way a field painted by Van Gogh seems to sway in the breeze. But that was something else, looking at the El Greco. It was a shock, like adrenaline, like a jump scare. I believe I gasped. That is the only painting that did that to me.
A friend of mine studied African art. She was looking at an African wood carving of a woman. She said she heard the sculpture scream, and realized it was a carving of a woman giving birth. She had a masters in African art and worked in the African art section of Brooklyn Museum of art. She was an art collector. She bought some paintings and drawings by me and said I was a better artist than I thought I was. It's good for an artist have an ego. Ego is pride, and I strive to do art work that I'm proud of, and that is a good thing. But a little ego goes along way. Have to temper it with self criticism.
Good to have heard from you. Be well.
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My paintings are pretty good. I'm old school. My paintings aren't great, but they are pleasant to look at and people like them. That is a good thing.
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The most impressive art I’ve seen ! The eye is drawn to every corner of the canvas .
I saw "the burial..." in person...I love art and I've always appreciated it, but THAT painting...it felt divinely inspired. Seeing it in person was such a surreal experience. I don't know why it touched me so deeply - like looking at a sunset or a beautiful landscape/seascape. Whatever that "awe" feeling that comes with nature hit me when I saw that painting in person.
As a long-time admirer of El Greco, I have deeply been astonished with this programme. A great documentary, indeed!
El Greco is the very definition of an artist being almost impossibly ahead of his time.
I completely agree in a way Al Greco was an expressionist centuries before it’s inception. Just magnificent.
@@rawuneditedvideos …some of El Greco’s works defy conventional art even today. I stand in front of his masterpieces and wonder how did he leapfrog over surrealists …impressionists and even insert himself somewhere between Picasso and Matisse..while both feet firmly in the 16th century…
@@zeroceiling it’s one of those anomalies but I do believe that whenever cultures or two schools of thought clash magic happens. El Greco combined Byzantine art with that of the west and he did it with a vision of a man 3 centuries out of place. His work would have been controversial in 1900 yet alone in the 16th century.
@@rawuneditedvideos …110% agree on that one….he out-Dalied..Dali…though Dali was clearly never in Greco’s level of genius…it’s like he predicted a flood of artistic styles before they appeared..and he actually incorporated them in his 15th century works…it was actually bizarre…and breath taking at the same time..
fantastic! I really enjoyed this documentary
Artists are always avant-garde. I like that.
His paintings are fascinating! Picasso"s paintings on the other hand, look to me like the paintings of a student of cubism
Umm yeah, he took from him.
Excellent documentary! keep it coming
From the beginning of this video, I was struck by his influence
on Cezanne and Picasso
Wow I've never thought of that before, great comparison!
8years old I decided to study El Greco.
As the lady in lilac says, the figures of Picasso´s Blue period are so related to El Greco!
That's what I've always thought! Picasso's Old Guitar Player resembles El Greco's style very much.
His nude paintings remind me of Cezanne; the play of color on the folds of garments reminds me of Michelangelo.
I hope you upload the rest of the Raiders of the Lost Art series!! 😊😊
Great work!
I’ll say!!!! 🙏🏻🌹🙏🏽
He would never have painted with such a small brush.
All of these documentaries do that. Tiny brush. Held like a pencil, not at the end of the handle. Rather than making one bold stroke and leaving it, dab, dab, dab. They move the brush with the fingers or elbow, not the shoulder. In short, everything is wrong.
Right! Phony painting technique. Especially jarring for an artist who handled the brush with such self-assurance. Also, I doubt he would paint in his best clothes.
They should do a documentary on jusepe de Ribera
Good video! Very very super interesting! Very much knowledge!
Pls read the recent scholary works. There was no such thing as El Greco having actually criticised openly Michelangelo's work and said he would have done it better and with less nude figures. It's been said that he said probably so by sources of his time actually hostile to him, those "rumours" spread on speculating why he had left Rome, but there is no evidence for that. He left bcs he had to go and had a job that suited his artistic purposes better than cramped by certain style and well connected painters Venice or Rome. It's outragous to hear that on an otherwise good documentary.
Thanks for this. I'm an artist and I'm very inspired by El Greco, and this kind of vanity doesn't seem to suit such a great soul.
Are you saying that el Greco never criticized Michelangelo's work?
Has anyone else fallen in love with Calandra since this show started?
The Greek!!!❤
i wish i could hear what these people are saying more clearly, particularly the names of people and places. the close captioning is no help. i'd like to know where the El Greco dialogue came from, where his painting were for the centuries when he was an unknown, and the chronology of his works. the analysis of the presenters seems obvious.
Are you geco the doctor no im the fucking painter lol funny moment from mafia 2
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El Greco, Vladimir Horowitz and sir Robert Smirke
Birthday on oct Oct 1
Wow, the tool with the glasses is a real critic, huh?
Thanks for this nice, but short recollection of El Greco's life and work. I really believe he had dreams or visions of the biblical history and this is what he painted.
El. Albanian Greco iralian franc and spanish wos e genius❤
Instead of fast forwarding the original documentary and uploading please upload the original version. It would be easier to understand which is especially difficult with so called “art critics” speaking without opening their mouth
where were his paintings kept for two hundred years??
Looks like spray paint 🤯
El greco es española .casi
Toda su vida trabajo en España .
Sorry but he was Greek. So Greek that his name was the Greek. He came to Spain at the age of 36. As half Greek half German living abroad I will always be Greek. It is in our culture
hola estoy en clase xdddd
So, what was his name? It wasn't the Greek.
Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος. Dominicus Theotokopoulos
What some artists don't understand is however much value they perceive their art to have, you can't force everyone to like it. I understand El Greco's, Picasso's etc. genius and revolutionary quality of their paintings, but I still don't like them. And the more a painter or any artist whatsoever is going to be hostile and disdainful towards people who don't like his art, the more they will hate it.
I can't understand some of the ever so BRITISH ladies........
I can't understand a single word that blonde chick says
@@Survivor-mf1nm It's upper class English, most commoners wouldn't, generally. Look up Public School accents and Received Pronunciation to train your ear.
interesting to observe how horses are depicted smaller. great real beings. man is tiny. ego is big
Talking heads: thumbs down. Droning music: thumbs down. Lame dramatizations: thumbs down. Just show the art.
Just get an art book and don't bother reading the text.
@@92ninersboy No, text is fine, commentary is fine. But if you had an art book, would you want it to have pictures of the book's writer to look at, and pictures of people pretending to be the artist?
Why did you erased all your comments my dear Turkish friend?
Come one... be a man!
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Not better than Michael Angelo. Still very good.
In your humble opinion
This isn’t a football match. There is no way to compare the two. They are utterly different.
No artist has ever been as ahead of his time??? Picasso? Pollock?
You could make a strong case that El Greco was a good three hundred years ahead of his time (at the least) - he wasn't part of an existing movement - he stood alone.
Never trust a British "documentary" on art. Never!
the tedium of the “historians”. are they parasitic or helpful?
These "critics" are kind of mealy mouthed without much insight? No men allowed to talk about art in the cancel culture?
just a cartoonist wake up
Just an unappreciative twatwaffle. Wake up.
Come on John. The great painters were geniuses and super human. Get out to good museum, take a serious look at some masterpieces, and see if you don't get moved and amazed by some.
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I know. His crack is kind of funny though.
I assume you are being ironic.
@@92ninersboy you mean moronic
El Greco should not even be included in this series. Below average painter.