Through The Mists Of Time - The World Of El Greco

We must associate an artist's production of works with his existed ideas and conceptions, and the social and cultural environment in order to understand the artist thoroughly. As he produces works in some particular environment, and only in this environment can we understand the original meaning of the work, and can we see the problems the artist has ever met so that the production of the artist can be comprehended and the maximum of enlightenment to us can be appreciated.El Greco is considered as one of the most unique and intricate geniuses. El Greco (page 16): All he had learnt produced his art, which was unique, characteristic and very peculiar both in the contemporary times and in the modern times. It seems to us that they should be the works of modernists three or four hundred years later. This is really a great creation in the history of painting.I hope to understand, through the study of El Greco's art, how he had produced the unique art which was beyond his times on the basis of his own long-standing tradition.In the process of my study, I consulted almost all the Chinese data available in our nation, and also some social and cultural data about the European middle ages, especially that of the 16th century. Moreover, I did some related analysis on the ideology and culture of the ancient Greek literature. On the basis of my many years' experience on studying the western painting, I prefer to analyze the unusual "modern" features of Greco from the viewpoint of aesthetical ideology and the production of painting art.From the study and analysis of the relationship between ideology and social environment in Greco's art, the study of the ways of solving artistic problems in particular, I found that Greco's art is actually the bold innovation of the Greek civilization, and the development and renewal of the Greek art instead of the segmentation or deviation from it. It is his profound knowledge that made him keep himself detached historically and philosophically from many intricate and varied schools of art. He is the observer of all the artistic beings of all the times. To him, whether an artistic form is good or not depends not on whether it is new or old, but on whether it can adapt to express its own individuality.His art is, above all, based on the Greek spirit, and he has the open insight on artistic forms which was very rare in those times. Especially in his artistic production, he seeks to solve artistic problems creatively, and keeps his own independent style in the numerous and complicated...