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- Picasso felt a lifelong admiration for Spanish masters such as El Greco and Velazquez, and ultimately a sense of rivalry with them too. Both were intensely and distinctively Spanish - El Greco in spite of the fact that he was born in Crete (hence El Greco, 'the Greek') and arguably brought with him to his adopted country some elements of the ancient Byzantine tradition.
El Greco's impact on Picasso began early, and one of the 16th-century painter's mannerisms, his elongated figures, certainly influenced the Blue Period figures and some later works. Portrait of a Painter is a playful reworking of one of El Greco's portraits, suggesting the ruff and dark Spanish costume but making free with every other element in the original. This is an early example of a pursuit that would become an obsession with Picasso - 'copying', or rather turning into Picassos, the great paintings of the past.
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