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El Greco
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The Great Gatsby
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- I see it as a night scene by El Greco: a hundred houses, at once conventional and grotesque, crouching under a sullen, overhanging sky and a lustreless moon.†
p. 176.6El Greco = painter remembered for elongated human forms
Definitions:
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(1)
(El Greco) Spanish painter (born in Greece) remembered for his religious works characterized by elongated human forms and dramatic use of color (1541-1614)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)