GOYA, "Crazy like a genius"

 Last week he had a lecture during the class about the life and professional life of Francisco de Goya. I was able to take some notes while I was watching the lecture so that I could learn more about this artist and his art. For this note, I decided to use topics.

Francisco Goya: Self-portrait

Detail of Self-portrait, etching by Francisco Goya from the series Los caprichos, 1799.

Francisco Goya: The Family of Charles IV

The Family of Charles IV, oil on canvas by Francisco Goya, 1800; in the Prado, Madrid.

1. The most avant-garde artist of all time;
2. Was nearly killed three years and spent six months in a coma.
3. His work is rich in variety and personality.
4. Identifying figures from the nineteenth century
5. Despite the fact that his works date from the century, he remained interested in the twentieth century.
6. American painter Golub; 
7. His paintings and he are both insane;
8. He was a war reporter;
9. He was a moralist;
10. He was strange;
11. He was unexpected
12. Two of his paintings, one of which depicted a large picnic full of elegant and happy people in bright colours, in which the painter seems to want to be in that spot, and the other of which depicted a large picnic full of elegant and happy people in bright colours, show his shift during his lifetime. Years later, Goya painted a painting that seems to reflect the same theme, except this time he used darkness and insane faces to illustrate the theme.
13. He was born in a very poor area of Spain.
14. The location did not provide any unique information to the reporter.
15. Goya met professional painters for the first time in Saragossa, where he got his first work as an artist.
16. They keep silent; women are not permitted to enter the monastery.
17. The Virgin Mary is depicted in every painting.
18. Following Goya's death, the monks employed French painters to improve his work.
19. Goya had the ability to portray drama in a contained manner during this time period.
20. Goya relocated to Madrid, where he reached the peak of his career;
21. He was meant to paint idols, happy scenes, and other such subjects;
22. The "Museo del Prado,", Madrid, which houses about 130 paintings, contains the majority of his art.
23. With his cartoon work, he learned how to handle nuance, motion, voice, and pose.
24. He was studying how to please a customer.
25. Paintings of lower-class combats and battles were particularly common with the family.
26. Some of his works show signs of darkness; 
27. 1788 was a successful year for Goya; 
28. Carlos appointed Goya as the royal family's chief painter; 
29. Some people believed Goya was satirising the royal family and members of the upper classes in some way.
30. Goya and Maria del Toledo have a sexual conflict;
31. She was a talented dancer with a stunning appearance.
32. In one of the paintings depicting Maria, the painter painted two rings on her fingers, one with his name and the other with her name, and at the bottom of the painting, Goya wrote the word "Solo Goya," but that was just the painter's imagination, not Maria's;
33. Pepita, a drawing of her naked;
34. Goya was initially content in Madrid, where he earned well and was well-liked, but he became ill and began to lose his sight, hear voices, and eventually lose his hearing, which he did not regain for the rest of his life.
35. In Goya, deafness liberated something;
36. He had always desired to be liberated;
37. Some of his paintings from this artistic period are on display at the San Fernando museum in Spain, and walking through the rooms is very intense;
38. He used art to control his monsters.
39. He was a representation of many grim places, such as jails and insane asylums.
40. Almost all at the time trusted in the influence of witches;
41. He was also fascinated by witches, who were said to sell babies to more powerful witches and even the devil.
42. He started creating graphic masterpieces known as "Caprices" in 1799.
43. These works dealt with anatomy, robbery, abduction, and other topics;
44. Just 27 of the 300 "caprichos" were purchased.
45. He began to draw the creatures he had imagined;
46. Because of their darkness, these works are referred to as "Black Paintings."
47. He's crazy like a genius.
48. The sinister beings that frighten in his works have a familiar look about them, as if Goya had breakfast with them;
49. He died at the age of 82.
50. Goya's head was stolen and has never been recovered.

Reference:

Harris-Frankfort, E. (2021) Francisco Goya | Biography, Art, Paintings, Etchings, & Facts. [Online Image] Encyclopedia Britannica. Available from : https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francisco-Goya [Accessed 03/05/21].