UNIT 2
Disrobing of Christ or El Expolio
El Greco�s style -
the pictorial discipline of the icon maker reduced the colour and drawing of figures and nature to strong, clear patterns, to have influenced certain of El Greco�s conception ideal of religious expression.
primacy of imagination and intuition, the subjective character of creation, fundamental principle discarded classicist criteria such as measure and proportion.
The Disrobing of Christ -
the summer of 1577, the spring of 1579, the Cathedral of Toledo
Subject -
Christ looking up, serenity, his idealized figure, dressed in black in the background
Colour -
a bright red robe; concentrated the full expressive force of his art.
Composition -
designing the composition vertically and compactly, the desire to show the oppression of Christ by a method of space elimination, middle and late 16th-century Mannerists