In 1957 Picasso wrote a surrealist farce entitled "The Burial of the Count of Orgaz" where he has the "Meninas" burying the count. Foundoulaki asserts that Picasso "completed ... the process for the activation of the painterly values of El Greco which had been started by Manet and carried on by Cézanne". David Douglas Duncan relates that once, while he and Picasso were talking about influences from El Greco and Cézanne that appeared in his early paintings, Picasso grumbled in his voice that sounded like a cello: "Naturally, a painter always has a father and a mother". The expressionists focused on the expressive distortions of El Greco. According to Franz Marc, one of the principal painters of the German expressionist movement, "we refer with pleasure and with steadfastness to the case of El Greco, because the glory of this painter is closely tied to the evolution of our new perceptions on art". Jackson Pollock, a major force in the abstract expressionist movement, was also influenced by El Greco. By 1943, Pollock had completed sixty drawing compositions after El Greco and owned three books on the Cretan master. Contemporary painters are also inspired by El Greco's art. Kysa Johnson used El Greco's paintings of the Immaculate Conception as the compositional framework for some of her works, and the master's anatomical distortions are somewhat reflected in Fritz Chesnut's portraits. El Greco's personality and work were a source of inspiration for poet Rainer Maria Rilke. One set of Rilke's poems ("Himmelfahrt Mariae I.II.", 1913) was based directly on El Greco's "Immaculate Conception". Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis, who felt a great spiritual affinity for El Greco, called his autobiography "Report to Greco" and wrote a tribute to the Cretan-born artist. In 1998, the Greek electronic composer and artist Vangelis published "El Greco", a symphonic album inspired by the artist. This album is an expansion of an earlier album by Vangelis, "Foros Timis Ston Greco" ("A Tribute to El Greco", Greek: "Φόρος Τιμής Στον Γκρέκο"). The life of the Cretan-born artist is the subject of "El Greco", a 2007 Greek-Spanish film directed by Yannis Smaragdis and starring British actor Nick Ashdon as El Greco.