The Greek!!

I was wondering whether you'd done much work on El Greco Mr De Fres. I was sat there earlier today looking at my paintings and a passage i read in a biograph of Luc Tymans came to mind. He was talking about how he wasn't really interested in many artists when he was young, until he came across el greco. Within his paintings tymans saw a power that was lacking in any other artist. Where does this power come from? Why does he appear so different from every one of his contemporaries? I think this perhaps comes from his use of cool hues, particularly within the rendering of flesh, it creates a sense of space or air existing between us and the people within the painting. They have an appearence akin to a cadaver, this drop in chromatic temperature separates us from them. We are in an internal space, a gallery, a home etc, these pictures exist in a different realm and the frame acts as a window into this realm. All other painters of the time were producing images that were warmer and parallel to the viewing conditions, veiled with a golden light that aped the dull light of a candle, el greco had the light of space/nothingness. Could this be the way to go for my own work? Problem is i don't have a clue how he produced these cool fleshy hue's.