Francisco Goya – The First Modern Artist? – 2/3
…byb by Bart Sedgebear .First Prints: Los Caprichos Goya began making prints in 1792 after his illness and the onset of total deafness, and it is in this medium that his art–and Spanish visual culture–...
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by Bart Sedgebear A Four-Part Series The Disasters of War series is traditionally divided into four parts: one introductory print, forty six portraying the horrors of war, seventeen with scenes of...
View ArticleThe Private Life Of A Masterpiece – Goya’s Third of May 1808 2/4
The facts behind Goya’s Third of May painting are incontrovertible. On May 2, 1808 French troops rounded up and detained in barracks all the Spaniards they found in Madrid carrying weapons. In the...
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This third part of this series opens with the man in white, the victim and ultimate victor of Goya’s Third of May painting. According to narrator, Samuel West, he is portrayed as super human. Even...
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