hey also reflect the thrusting, active shapes of the clouds above. The variety of dark shadows and patches of light combine with the windblown appearance of the grasses in the foreground to produce an impression of violent action that, in contrast with the 'action' of the sky produces a dynamic tension like the moment before an approaching storm breaks on the landscape. This tension is increased by the fact that El Greco combined a severely flattened, uptilted foreground with a representation of deep pictorial space. But the effect of the depiction of space is muted by the blurring of the horizon line and the use of dark tones where sky and landscape meet. Thus the picture has an overall flattened perspective even while it conveys a clear sense of the distance between the viewer's standpoint and the horizon. This can be seen
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