”Υπάρχον”*

by El Greco
*tr. Greek - existence, life;
 Domḗnikos
Theotokópoulos
Life: 1541-1614;
Known for: painting, sculpture
and architecture;
Movement: Mannerism
Spanish Renaissance;
Notable work: El Expolio;
The Burial of the Count of Orgaz,
View of Toledo,
Opening of the Fifth Seal;
Opening of the Fifth Seal View of Toledo

El Expolio-Disrobing of Jesus
 El Greco discarded classicist
criteria such as measure and
proportion, regarding color as the
most important and the most
ungovernable element of painting,
and declaring that color had
primacy over form.

"I hold the imitation of color to be

the greatest difficulty of art."
 General
descripsion:
• Author: El Greco;
• Size: 17*18 inch (43*48 cm);
• Movement: Mannerism;
• Medium: oil on canvas;
• Location: Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York
City;
 Incomplehension,
incertitude, lack of
knowledge

Present time,
moment that
matter

Security,
acquaintance
 Symbol
The hourglass, metaphorically,
is often depicted as a symbol
that human existence is
fleeting, and that the "sands of
time" will run out for every
human life.

Send=lifetime
 Contemplation;
Awareness;
Conveyed Irreversibility;
attitudes:
Regret;
Resignation;