Just the facts Lived March 30 1746April 16 1828 Last of the Old Masters and First of the Moderns Court painter to the Spanish Crown Chronicler of history A model for painters that followed such as Picasso because of the subversive and subjective element to his paintings ID: 562366
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Fernando Goya: From The Real to the SurrealSlide2
Just the facts:
Lived: March 30, 1746-April 16, 1828
Last of the Old Masters and First of the Moderns
Court painter to the Spanish Crown
Chronicler of history
A model for painters that followed such as Picasso because of the subversive and subjective element to his paintings.Slide3
Famous Works
Goya became the painter for a number of the royal families in Spain starting in 1786 through 1789.
This painting is of Charles IV of Spain and his family. Goya was known not to flatter his subjects as some artists did. Why was this risky?Slide4
Two of
Goya’s
most famous works are
La
maja
desnuda
and
La
maja
vestida
(
above). The paintings depict the same woman first without clothes than with clothes. He painted the nude first and their was outrage in Spanish society so then he painted the clothed
maja
. Most artists used mythology as an excuse to paint nudes so this was very bold to paint a nude without any sort of excuse. One source says this was” the first totally profane life-size nude in Western art. “Slide5
In 1808 , the French invaded Spain during what was called the Peninsular War .
This is a painting honoring the Spanish resistance to the French invasion.
According to one art historian, this is “the first great picture which can be called revolutionary in every sense of the word, in style, in subject, and in intention".
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Later years
Goya became ill with cholera and a high fever in 1792 and became deaf because of this illness.
The deafness and pain associated with his illnesses caused him to become depressed and , some say, insane. He began to do a series of B
lack Paintings
which to most people would be considered horrifying or haunting.
Saturn Devouring His Sons
is one example.
An example of this would be his
Courtyard with Lunatics
. It shows a courtyard full of insane people in
an asylum
behind bars and gates. Barely clothed you can see the desperate loneliness and fear etched on their faces. Goya possibly painted this trying to reveal the horrors of the system for the mentally ill at that time.
Some say that Goya himself went insane because of the accumulation of lead in his system from the paints he used for years.