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The Artist Project: Zhang Xiaogang

Artist Zhang Xiaogang reflects on El Greco's The Vision of Saint John in this episode of The Artist Project.
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From March 2015 to June 2016, we invited 120 artists—local, national, and global—to choose individual works of art or galleries that sparked their imaginations. In this online series, artists reflect on what art is, what inspires them from across 5,000 years of art, and in so doing, they reveal the power of a museum and The Met.

"Art should express what is inside someone. It should express a person's unique perspective."

Artist Zhang Xiaogang reflects on El Greco's "The Vision of Saint John" in this episode of The Artist Project—an online series in which artists respond to works of art in The Met collection.

About the Artist
Zhang Xiaogang, born in 1958, is a Chinese painter.

Zhang Xiaogang (Chinese, born 1958)

Portrait, 1996

Oil on canvas; 15 3/4 × 11 7/8 in. (40 × 30.2 cm). Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Reade and Elizabeth Griffith (2012.118) © Zhang Xiaogang. Image: Imaging Department © President and Fellows of Harvard College

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The Vision of Saint John, El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) Greek, Oil on canvas
The Vision of Saint John
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)
ca. 1608–14