Based in Connecticut, Jeffrey Autrey holds an executive position in the pharmaceutical industry with Pfizer, Inc. A history and archaeology buff, Jeffrey Autrey has an in-depth knowledge of art history.
One of the catalysts for the development of modern expressionism was El Greco, who was born in Crete and began his art studies in the tradition of Byzantine icons. Moving to Venice, the young painter assimilated Italian artists of the Renaissance, including Veronese, Tintoretto, and Titian. Some techniques he mastered included figural construction, perspective, and creating scenes that represented complex Biblical narratives. In Spain, after an extended sojourn in Rome, El Greco sought to obtain royal patronage in Madrid and failed. Setting up shop in the medieval hill town of Seville instead, he immortalized the landscape through the superlative "View of Toledo" while working on religious projects such as an altarpiece commission for the Toledo Cathedral. Drawn to the Mannerist school, El Greco began to explore ways of moving beyond mere imitation of nature toward expressing psychological states. This moved him to create figures with distorted, elongated features that inspired a young Picasso centuries later. El Greco's rejection of materialism in search of the divine essence, apparent in paintings such as "The Disrobing of Christ," was long neglected but ultimately influenced Franz Marc and the Blue Rider school of the early 20th century.
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