Paintings: El Greco app for iPhone and iPad


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Reference Education
Developer: CornerStone Media Ventures
0.99 USD
Current version: 2.5, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 10 Dec 2012
App size: 85.62 Mb

In this FULL VERSION, designed for iPhone and iPad, you will find over 100 images of the paintings from the great master "El Greco".
This App is available for iPod, iPhone and iPad. Optimized for iOS6, retina display and iPhone 5. It allows you to share images via email, Twitter and Facebook, or save them to your camera roll (with no watermarks). Share the artist bio via email. Select your favorites. View the images one by one, or enjoy a slideshow.

Enjoy this fantastic visual gallery, share the images with your friends, and learn about the artist life.

El Greco (1541–1614) was a painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. "El Greco" (The Greek) was a nickname, referring to his ethnic Greek origin, and the artist normally signed his paintings with his full birth name in Greek letters, (Doménikos Theotokópoulos). His dramatic and expressionistic style was met with puzzlement by his contemporaries but found appreciation in the 20th century. He is regarded as a precursor of both Expressionism and Cubism. He is best known for tortuously elongated figures and often fantastic or phantasmagorical pigmentation, marrying Byzantine traditions with those of Western painting. He has been characterized by modern scholars as an artist so individual that he belongs to no conventional school.
El Greco is loved not just by experts and art lovers but also by ordinary people. Epitomizing the consensus of El Grecos impact, Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States, said in April 1980 that El Greco was "the most extraordinary painter that ever came along back then" and that he was "maybe three or four centuries ahead of his time".