Figuration after World War II
The exhibition concludes with more recent interpretations of El Greco’s painting in
the light of the devastation of World War II and focusing on an angst-ridden
expressionism. Works such as Bomberg’s Hear Oh Israel, which can be related to Christ
embracing the Cross, the foreshortening in Bacon’s Reclining Woman, which derives from
the soldier in the foreground of The Resurrection, and copies and portraits by
Giacometti and Antonio Saura all communicate a spiritual energy characteristic of El
Greco.