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Francisco de Goya y Lucientes 1746-1828 PDF
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes 1746-1828 PDF
1746-1828
Goya created
• Rich clothing
• All the insignias of
royalty, powdered
wig
• Face? Impression?
• Critique?
Charles IV -- 1789
Queen María Luisa -- 1789
• Rich royal clothing
• Royal insignias
• Hair and hat?
• Face?
• Personality?
• Attitude of Goya
towards her?
The Straw Mannequin -- 1791
Second Stage, after losing his
hearing
• Yard of lunatics – 1793
• Images of madness
• Enclosure
• Continuation of tendency
begun with Saint Francis
of Borgia
• Alienation and despair
• Movement
• Use of light
• Chaotic jumble of bodies
The Caprichos (Caprices) 1799
• Series of 82 etchings
• Satirizing all aspects of
society:
– Aristocracy
– Church
– Greed
– Prostitution
– Marriage
– Folly
– Cruelty
– Etc.
Descendant of donkeys
Love and Death
Caprice 43
•Set of 82 etchings
•Realities of war:
•Violence
•Savagery
•Rape
•murder
The Colossus – between
1808-1812
• Ambiguity of giant
– Ignorant, arrogant prince?
(Ferdinand VII)
• Mountains= the powerful
• Donkey=nobility
– Hercules who rises up
against Napoleon?
– Buried to above the knees
– Back to spectator
– Closed eyes
Ferdinand VII
• El deseado (1814)
• Period of absolutism
(1814-1820), persecution
of liberals
• 1820-1823 constitutional
monarchy (Intervention of
100,000 Sons of Saint
Louis)
• 1823-1833 Ominous
Decade
Disparates or Proverbs
(1816-1823)
• Not published until
1864
• Last great series of
etchings
• Gives himself up to the
irrational, nocturnal,
fantastic, grotesque
and terrifying
Disparate del miedo [fear}
Los ensacados [In sacks]
The Inquisition -- 1816
Black Paintings– 1820-1823
Stephen Mark
The Milkmaid from Bordeaux
• Goya in exile in
Bordeaux
• Girl has a melancholy,
dreamy, far away gaze
• Color: greens and
blues
• Influence on
Impressionists