The man known as El Greco was a Greek artist whose emotional style vividly expressed the passion of Counter-Reformation Spain.The haunting intensity of El Greco''s paintings-resulting from their unnaturally long figures and strong contrasts of color and light-has invited a kind of mythmaking about his life and art.The DVD will introduce you to El Greco''s dramatic and expressionistic style that met with puzzlement by his contemporaries but found appreciation in the 20th century. El Greco is regarded as a precursor of both Expressionism and Cubism while his personality and works were a source of inspiration for poets and writers such as Rainer Maria Rilke and Nikos Kazantzakis.