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Francisco de Goya y Lucientes 1746-1828

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes 1746-1828. Goya created. About 500 oil paintings 280 lithographs and etchings (and he used the most modern methods) Nearly a thousand drawings. His life can be divided into four stages:. Until 1793 – slow rise to maturity

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Francisco de Goya y Lucientes 1746-1828

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  1. Francisco de Goya y Lucientes 1746-1828

  2. Goya created • About 500 oil paintings • 280 lithographs and etchings (and he used the most modern methods) • Nearly a thousand drawings

  3. His life can be divided into four stages: • Until 1793 – slow rise to maturity • 1793 – illness that left him deaf and released pent up creative forces within him • 1808 – Napoleonic invasion and Goya’s responses to the war. • 1819 – a second illness, he retires to the Quinta del Sordo, the Black Paintings

  4. First Stage: Tapestry Cartoons • Produced for the Royal Tapestry Factory (Charles III) • Rococo tendencies in nature and pose of figures • Girl seems to stare at spectator, giving a sense of realism • Clothing implies social class • Relationship between the two? • Parasol? • General impression?

  5. Blind Man´s Bluff --1789

  6. Etchings after Velázquez Las meninas 1773

  7. Saint Francis of Borgia at the Deathbed of an Impenitent -- 1788 • “The most sharply accurate vision of the collapse of the great religious and monarchic traditions of the West” • Turning point: first use of the fantastic • Emphasis on sinner’s naked body, expression • Restless agony vs. pious zeal • Rejection of idealized concept of expression (Neoclassicism) • Emphasis on extremes

  8. Portraits • Rich clothing • All the insignias of royalty, powdered wig • Face? Impression? • Critique? Charles IV -- 1789

  9. Queen María Luisa -- 1789 • Rich royal clothing • Royal insignias • Hair and hat? • Face? • Personality? • Attitude of Goya towards her?

  10. The Straw Mannequin -- 1791

  11. 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

  12. The Caprichos (Caprices) 1799 • Series of 82 etchings • Satirizing all aspects of society: • Aristocracy • Church • Greed • Prostitution • Marriage • Folly • Cruelty • Etc.

  13. Descendant of donkeys

  14. Love and Death

  15. Caprice 43 • Marks a change in the series • The Sleep/Dream of Reason Produces Monsters • Neoclassical or Romantic? • The sublime • Nightmare visions

  16. 1808 – 1814 Napoleon and the War of Independence The 3rd of May, 1808

  17. The 3rd of May, 1808 • Conformity of soldiers, power conveyed by abstract shape • Victims cover their eyes, pray • Center: man with outstretched arms = crucifixion • Concentration of light, color on man

  18. The disasters of the war • Set of 82 etchings • Realities of war: • Violence • Savagery • Rape • murder

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. 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}

  22. Los ensacados [In sacks]

  23. The Inquisition -- 1816

  24. Black Paintings– 1820-1823 The witches’ Sabbath

  25. Dog on a leash or Dog fighting against the current

  26. Fight with Cudgels Stephen Mark

  27. The Milkmaid from Bordeaux • Goya in exile in Bordeaux • Girl has a melancholy, dreamy, far away gaze • Color: greens and blues • Influence on Impressionists

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