The mystical visions of El Greco’s backturned figures

dc.contributor.authorMare, Estelle Alma
dc.date.accessioned2012-10-05T14:23:47Z
dc.date.available2012-10-05T14:23:47Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.description.abstractThis article is introduced with a statement about the author’s involvement with El Greco studies and her attempts to understand the manifestation of mysticism in his art. The research focusses on the visual experience of two different kinds of beholders in El Greco’s oeuvre: the virtual backturned figures in paintings beholding a vision as part of the representations, and the beholders in real space viewing the complete paintings. The presentation in each of the seven works discussed is mediated by an internal backturned beholder, forming a nodal figure in the composition, who views a mystical vision as the main theme presented in the painting, while the beholder in real space views the beholding backturned figure, his vision and the total composition.en_US
dc.description.abstractHierdie artikel word ingelei deur ’n stelling oor die outeur se betrokkenheid by El Greco-studies en haar pogings om die manifestasie van mistiek in sy kuns te deurgrond. Daar word gefokus op die visuele ervaring van twee verskillende soorte betragters in El Greco se oeuvre: die virtuele ruggekeerde figure in die skilderye wat ’n visioen as ’n deel van die voorstellings aanskou, en die betragters in die werklike ruimte wat die volledige skilderye aanskou. In elkeen van die sewe werke wat bespreek word, word die voorstelling deur ’n interne betragter, as ’n nodale figuur in die komposisie, bemiddel in die vorm van ’n ruggekeerde figuur wat die mistiese visioen as die hooftema in die skildery aanskou, terwyl die betragter in die werklike ruimte die betragtende ruggekeerde figuur, sy visioen en die totale komposisie waarneemaf
dc.description.librarianai2013en
dc.format.extent15 pagesen_US
dc.format.mediumPDFen_US
dc.identifier.citationMare, EA 2011, 'The mystical visions of El Greco’s backturned figures', South African Journal of Art History, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 127-141. [http://www.journals.co.za/ej/ejour_sajah.html]en_US
dc.identifier.issn0258-3542
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/20064
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherArt Historical Work Group of South Africaen_US
dc.rightsArt Historical Work Group of South Africaen_US
dc.subjectEl Grecoen_US
dc.subjectMystical visionen_US
dc.subjectNodal figureen_US
dc.subjectBackturned figuresen_US
dc.subjectPaintingsen_US
dc.subject.lcshArt -- History -- 16th centuryen
dc.subject.lcshGreco, 1541?-1614 -- Criticism and interpretationen
dc.subject.lcshMysticism in arten
dc.subject.lcshComposition (Art)en
dc.subject.lcshSpace (Art)en
dc.subject.lcshHuman figure in arten
dc.titleThe mystical visions of El Greco’s backturned figuresen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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