Word: grecos
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...place he has recently come to occupy, on the grounds that he is highly over-rated as a painter. Now whether or not Van Gogh is over-rated must remain a point for further discussion. It can be said, however, that along with such men as El Greco, Brueghel, Cezanne, and a few others, he has succeeded in stamping every painting which he has executed with the seal of his own unique personality. Many artists have excelled, but few have been as convincing in the field of self-assertion as Van Gogh...
...content from the painting itself. Now it is difficult, almost impossible, for a literal artist, one who does not paint in what we consider abstract terms, to convey a feeling or idea about an impersonal universal in a successful manner. For example, even so great an artist as El Greco could not, if he worked within his own limits, express the idea, "geometry is beautiful," without detracting from the central idea by using in his work people and extraneous matter, for he is a literal painter, and an idea such as the one suggested cannot be fully expressed...