For example, his painting of a local teenager in Collioure, France, (pictured) had all the hallmarks of the bright and expressive colors from his Fauvism period, a style of painting that he helped to create.

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In his wildly expressive, Mannerist heaven and eloquent, earthly realm, hints of El Greco's deeply idiosyncratic later style abound, one that would perfectly parallel the increasingly abstract theological tenets they embraced.

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