Title: Francisco de Goya is one of the greatest masters that Spain has ever produced and is considered the
1 - Francisco de Goya is one of the greatest masters
that Spain has ever produced and is considered
the Father of Modern Art.
2Many of Goyas most famous paintings can be seen
today in the Prado Museum. Madrid, Spain.
3His works, which are world reknown,
changed the way artists would interpret the
world. His works, paintings and drawings, spread
on a span of 60 years covering from about the
last half of the 18th century to the first
quarter of the 19th century, and portray a
celebration of life and a realistic view of the
world.
4 Goya was born in the province of Zaragoza.
5 By 1799, Goya becomes the official
Chamber painter of King Charles IV. But by this
time he had suffered an illness which left him
deaf, and his alienation from the pomposity of
the Court began. He produced dark works at this
time.
6 Together with the critiques to his works,
Goya undergoes a time of wild imagination, in
which sordid images of a surreal world begin to
appear.
7Unable to present his works to his old
clientele, he is forced, under the threat of the
Inquisition, to withdraw his works.
8Meanwhile he continued with his services as
crown painter and by 1800, he creates La Família
de Carlos IV (The Family of Charles IV).
9By this time political and social
upheaval connected with the Napoleonic kidnap of
the Spanish crown and the invasion of Spain, Goya
produced 2 de Mayo de 1808 (2nd of May of 1808),
and other pieces in which the artist epitomizes
the suffering and the realism of the time to a
height not seen before.
10Ferdinand VII, King of Spain,
reinstitutes Goya as the Chamber painter after
the war, but by this time the artists
convictions lead him to witness the vanity of
court life. This begins his period known as the
black paintings.
11A decade later, after having witnessed
the excesses and the attempt to enforce an
absolutist regime by Ferdinand VII, Goya decides
to leave Spain to settle in Southern France where
he will die.
12 Because of the richness of works from
Goya, one can witness how his attitude towards
life and the world evolves and changes, as the
socio-political events surrounding him shift.
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16 His works hardly stylized the Classical
from prevalent of this time, but tended to be
more of a romantic nature.
17In his old age, Goya becomes an
embittered and disillusioned person towards
society and its false pretenses.
18Goya was no more than a man, but it is
his humanity which allows us to view his personal
turmoil in a world that was fast disappearing
before his eyes.