The work of Spanish artist Francisco de Goya seems to span several eras. Trained in the stiff rigors of 18th-century neoclassicism, Goya (1746-1828) went on to inspire 19th-century realists and ...
As supreme mirages of dark delight and horror, Goya’s late paintings and etchings were probably inspired by the imagery of gothic novels, which he must have read either in English or French, for the ...
Francisco Goya is one of those artists who seem both to transcend their time and to epitomize it. Nihil humanum a me alienum puto (I hold nothing alien from me that has to do with human nature), wrote ...
It’s been a big week for animation based on the work of legendary Spanish painter Francisco de Goya. Speaking at Madrid’s Iberseries, Welchman explained: “Our next project is going to be based on the ...
Artwork can challenge us to imagine what happens when society abandons reason and ignores truth. By Marcel Dzama In “Searching for Goya,” at the Joyce Theater, the troupe uses the painter’s images as ...
“I have no eyesight, pulse, pen or ink,” wrote the elderly Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, half-jokingly, in a letter to a friend. “The only thing I have in excess is willpower.” No doubt the painter ...