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    Goya and artworks
    Goya and artworks
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    Goya and artworks

    By Jp. A. Calosse

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    Goya is perhaps the most approachable of painters. His art, like his life, is an open book. He concealed nothing from his contemporaries, and offered his art to them with the same frankness. The entrance to his world is not barricaded with technical difficulties. He proved that if a man has the capacity to live and multiply his experiences, to fight and work, he can produce great art without classical decorum and traditional respectability. He was born in 1746, in Fuendetodos, a small mountain village of a hundred inhabitants. As a child he worked in the fields with his two brothers and his sister until his talent for drawing put an end to his misery. At fourteen, supported by a wealthy patron, he went to Saragossa to study with a court painter and later, when he was nineteen, on to Madrid. Up to his thirty-seventh year, if we leave out of account the tapestry cartoons of unheralded decorative quality and five small pictures, Goya painted nothing of any significance, but once in control of his refractory powers, he produced masterpieces with the speed of Rubens. His court appointment was followed by a decade of incessant activity – years of painting and scandal, with intervals of bad health. Goya’s etchings demonstrate a draughtsmanship of the first rank. In paint, like Velázquez, he is more or less dependent on the model, but not in the detached fashion of the expert in still-life. If a woman was ugly, he made her a despicable horror; if she was alluring, he dramatised her charm. He preferred to finish his portraits at one sitting and was a tyrant with his models. Like Velázquez, he concentrated on faces, but he drew his heads cunningly, and constructed them out of tones of transparent greys. Monstrous forms inhabit his black-and-white world: these are his most profoundly deliberated productions. His fantastic figures, as he called them, fill us with a sense of ignoble joy, aggravate our devilish instincts and delight us with the uncharitable ecstasies of destruction. His genius attained its highest point in his etchings on the horrors of war. When placed beside the work of Goya, other pictures of war pale into sentimental studies of cruelty. He avoided the scattered action of the battlefield, and confined himself to isolated scenes of butchery. Nowhere else did he display such mastery of form and movement, such dramatic gestures and appalling effects of light and darkness. In all directions Goya renewed and innovated.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherParkstone International
    Release dateDec 5, 2022
    ISBN9781781608210
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      Goya and artworks - Jp. A. Calosse

      Self-Portrait

      1815. Oil on panel, 51 x 46 cm, Royal Academy of San Fernando, Madrid.

      Biography

      1746:

      Francisco Goya y Lucientes is born in Fuendetodos near Sargasso, Spain. His parents were members of the rural nobility and his father was a guilder. Except for a few isolated facts and dates, we know very little about Goya's childhood and adolescence.

      1759:

      At the age of 13, Goya begins studying at local painter José Luzán's workshop, where he will stay for four years.

      1763:

      He leaves for Madrid where he is denied entry into the Royal Academy of San Fernando.

      1766:

      At 20 years of age, he again attempts to enter The Royal Academy of San Fernando without much result.

      1767-1771:

      Stays in Rome where he is influenced by roman neoclassicism. He receives a special mention at a painting competition organized by the Academy of Parma.

      1771:

      Receives his first commission: it is for a fresco for the vault at the Cathedral of El Pilar in Sargasso.

      1773:

      Settles in Madrid where he marries Josefa Bayeu whose three brothers are painters. It is here where Goya receives a commission for the Royal Factory of Santa Barbara. Within 18 years, he will produce three series of tapestries (1774-1780, 1786-1788, 1791-1792). At the same time he pursues a career as a portrait artist.

      1774:

      The paintings of Aula Dei.

      1778:

      He does engravings influenced by Velázquez.

      1780:

      Goya is elected a member of The Royal Academy of San Fernando. He tries to introduce himself, little by little, into the complex University system. He makes a good impression on the royal family with his drawings, which are destined for the Prado Palace. His position appears to be improving, which helps to explain his growing rebellion against the artistic supervision of his brother-in-law, Francisco Bayeu.

      1785:

      Nominated several days before his fortieth birthday as the Deputy Director of Painting for the Royal Academy of San Fernando.

      1786:

      Becomes one of the King's painters.

      1789:

      Promoted and becomes a painter for the King's Chamber.

      1792:

      He becomes deaf after suffering from a serious illness for many years. He begins a series of etchings that permit him to satisfy his fantasy and imagination.

      1795:

      Goya is nominated as the Director of Painting for the Royal Academy. The same year he paints the first portrait of the Duchess of Alba whom he falls in love with.

      1797:

      His illness prevents him from serving his function as Director and Goya is nominated as an honorary director.

      1798:

      He undertakes the decoration of The Hermitage of San Antonio de la Florida in Madrid.

      1799:

      Publication of the collection of eighty plates of his Los Caprichos. He becomes the First Court Painter.

      1805-1810:

      He paints several still lives and undertakes the eighty-two plates from the Disasters of War series, during the agitated political times marked by the war and the French occupation.

      1812:

      His wife Josefa Bayeu dies.

      1814:

      Goya paints The Second of May, 1808 and The Third of May, 1808.

      1816:

      Publication of The Bullfight.

      1819:

      Buys a country house not far from Madrid, which will become The House of the Deaf. There, in 1821-1822, Goya most likely realizes his so-called Black Paintings. He also does his first lithograph.

      1824:

      He rejoins all of his friends in exile in France.

      1825:

      Publication of the lithographs: The Bulls of Bordeaux.

      1828:

      Goya dies in April in Bordeaux.

      Adoration of the Name of God by Angels

      1772. Fresco, 700 x 1500 cm. El Pilar, Saragossa

      There are no rules in painting, Goya told the Royal Academy of San Fernando in Madrid during an address he gave in 1792. He suggested that students should be allowed to develop their artistic talents freely and find inspiration from their own choice of masters rather than adhere to the doctrines of the neo-classical

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