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In The Third of May, 1808: The Execution of the Defenders of Madrid, Goya attempted to "perpetuate by the means of his brush the most notable and heroic actions of our glorious insurrection against the Tyrant of Europe" The painting does not show an incident that Goya witnessed; rather it was meant as more abstract commentary.
Black Paintings and The Disasters
In later life Goya bought a house, called Quinta del Sordo ("Deaf Man's House"), and painted many unusual paintings on canvas and on the walls, including references to witchcraft and war. One of these is the famous work Saturn Devouring His Sons (known informally in some circles as Devoration or Saturn Eats His Child), which displays a Greco-Roman mythological scene of the god Saturn consuming a child, a reference to Spain's ongoing civil conflicts. Moreover, the painting has been seen as "the most essential to our understanding of the human condition in modern times, just as Michelangelo's Sistine ceiling is essential to understanding the tenor of the 16th century".
This painting is one of 14 in a series known as the Black Paintings. After his death the wall paintings were transferred to canvas and remain some of the best examples of the later period of Goya's life when, deafened and driven half-mad by what was probably an encephalitis of some kind, he decided to free himself from painterly strictures of the time and paint whatever nightmarish visions came to him. Many of these works are in the Prado museum in Madrid.
In the 1810s, Goya created a set of aquatint prints titled The Disasters of War (Los desastres de la guerra) 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.
Questions of authenticity
The findings of research published since 2003 have raised questions regarding the authenticity of some of Goya's late works. One study claims that the Black Paintings were applied to walls that did not exist in Goya's home before he left for France. In 2008 the Prado Museum reverted the traditional attribution of The Colossus, and expressed doubts over the authenticity of three other paintings attributed to Goya as well.
Cinema, drama and opera
Enrique Granados composed a piano suite (1911) and later an opera (1916), both called Goyescas, inspired by the artist's paintings. Gian Carlo Menotti wrote a biographical opera about him titled Goya (1986), commissioned by Plácido Domingo, who originated the role; this production has been presented on television. Goya also inspired Michael Nyman's opera Facing Goya (2000). Goya is the central character in Clive Barker's play Colossus (1995).
Several films portray Goya's life. These include a short film, Goya (1948), The Naked Maja (1958), Goya, Historia de una Soledad (1971), Goya in Bordeaux (1999), Volavérunt (1999), Goya : Awakened in a Dream (1999), and Goya's Ghosts (2006).
In 1988 American musical theatre composer Maury Yeston released a studio cast album of his own musical, Goya: A Life In Song, in which Plácido Domingo again starred as Goya.
See also
- List of works by Francisco Goya
- History of painting
- Western painting
Notes
- ^ Goya and Modernism, Bienal Internacional de São Paulo Retrieved 27 July 2007.
- ^ Galeria de Arte transparencias Ancora A Todo Color 1961 Goya biography from the Museo del Prado. As quoted on eeweems.com
- ^ Chocano, Carina. "Goya's Ghosts". Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2007. Retrieved on 18 January 2008.
- ^ Licht, Fred: Goya: The Origins of the Modern Temper in Art, page 68. Universe Books, 1979. "Even if one takes into consideration the fact that Spanish portraiture is often realistic to the point of eccentricity, Goya's portrait still remains unique in its drastic description of human bankruptcy".
- ^ "Rosario Weiss". Jose de la Mano Madrid Art Gallery.
- ^ Licht, Fred, page 83, 1979.
- ^ The Clothed Maja and the Nude Maja, the Prado Retrieved 27 July 2007.
- ^ Museo del Prado, Catálogo de las pinturas, 1996, p. 138, Ministerio de Educación y Cultura, Madrid, ISBN 8487317537
- ^ The Sleep of Reason Linda Simon (www.worldandi.com). Retrieved 2 December 2006.
- ^ Francisco Goya, quoted at Artchive.
- ^ Licht, Fred, page 167, 1979.
- ^ NY Times Magazine article dated 27 July 2003 by Arthur Lubow
- ^ Black Paintings of Goya by Juan Jose Junquera ISBN 1857592735
- ^ Goya's Iconic Painting Not Created by the Genius?
- ^ Goya (1948) at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ Goya, historia de una soledad (1971) at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ Goya in Bordeaux (1999) at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ Volavérunt (1999) at the Internet Movie Database
Sources
- John J. Ciofalo, The Self-Portraits of Francisco Goya. Cambridge University Press, 2001
- Goya (a biographical novel) by Lion Feuchtwanger ISBN 84-7640-883-8
- Goya by Robert Hughes, 2003, ISBN 1-84343-054-1
- eeweems.com Goya images, biography and resources
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