Goya

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828)

What genera is he from?
Romantic

Where was he born, show a map?
Goya was born in Fuendetodos, Aragón, Spain, in 1746.







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What is an aquatint?

"A form of etching with acid on a plate partially covered with varnish that produces a print somewhat resembling a watercolour; An etching or print made using this method; To make such etchings'
(wiktionary,aquatint)

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"Perhaps the best known of the Black Paintings is Saturn Devouring His Son. The image portrays the Roman god Saturn eating one of his children. Fearing a prophecy that one of his children would overthrow him, Saturn ate each of his children upon their birth. Goya depicts this act of cannibalism with startling savagery"
(Wikipedia,The Black painting)







What are the BLACK PAINTINGS?

"He had a first hand and acute awareness of panic, terror, fear and hysteria. He had survived two near-fatal illnesses, and grew increasingly anxious and impatient in fear of relapse. These factors combined are thought to have led to his production of 14 works known collectively as the Black Paintings.

Using oil paints and working directly onto the walls of his dining and sitting rooms, Goya created intense, haunting works with dark themes. The paintings were not commissioned and were not meant to leave his home; it is likely that the artist never intended the works for public exhibition: "...these paintings are as close to being hermetically private as any that have ever been produced in the history of Western art." Goya did not title the paintings, or if he did, he never revealed those titles; the names have been usually by provided art historians."(Wikipedia,The Black painting)

Two of Goya's best known paintings are The Nude Maja (La maja desnuda) and The Clothed Maja find them upload comment on each.




It looks almost the same as the picture blow except for some diferences which are she is wearing clothes which is the mane differnce between the pictures.Another is the backround it is almost commpetly black and the one blow spot lights Duchess of Alba. Another thing I have noticed is both pictures are in the same poshion, it looks like you chould put both painting together and the bodies would be alined.

I think this picture shows that Goya did have a romantic relationship with Duchess of Alba, "with whom Goya is thought to have had an affair, and the mistress of Manuel de Godoy, who subsequently owned the paintings. Neither theory has been verified, and it remains as likely that the paintings represent an idealized composite."(wikipedia,Goya)

"In the 1810s, Goya created a set of aquatint prints titled The Disasters of War which depict scenes from the Peninsular War. The scenes are singularly disturbing, sometimes macabre in their depiction of battlefield horror, and represent an outraged conscience in the face of death and destruction. The prints were not published until 1863, 35 years after Goya's death." Find as many images as you want and upload.

I think these four drawings are very macob and horrifing and down right scary. I think there was a good reason for the drawing not to be published untill after his death cause if the people of his time saw these they would have been out raged. As horried as these pictures are they are true to the events.