FRENCH LANGUAGE We don't look at Greco at all like we look at Tintoretto, but much more like we're going to see Kandinsky, Chagall or Picasso. The avant-gardes of the 20th century were not mistaken. Authors as diverse as Apollinaire, Hemingway, Malraux, Cocteau and Théophile Gautier considered him a brilliant artist and wrote about his innovative work. Because Greco enjoyed the dual prestige of tradition and modernity: capable of an eloquent and original synthesis, he imported into Spain in the 1570s the audacity of Tintoretto and Michelangelo's plastic strength. He is considered the last
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