Goya was not the first war artist but no one has captured its horrors more powerfully
, Goya is a direct point of reference. Last year Philippe Parreno, a French video artist, released “La Quinta del Sordo”, a 40-minute film showing Goya’s late “Black Paintings” in swirling hyper-close-ups, set to a soundtrack of interplanetary roars and moans. The effect is ghoulish and mesmeric. Two Goya portraits will be auctioned at Christie’s in January; they seem guaranteed to smash the record price for his work, currently $7.8m.
But he retained a lifelong appreciation of demotic tastes—bullfighting, hunting, the fiesta—even as he made friends among the intellectuals of the Spanish Enlightenment. His knowledge of those contrasting worlds, and affection for them, gave him a unique understanding when they came into conflict. “His art is always aimed at more than one side,” says Ms Maurer.
, the plight of prisoners and fantasies of the madhouse that mocked the “normal” world. Goya also became a prolific printmaker. In “Los Caprichos” he lampooned the church and social hypocrisies.’s invasion of Spain and the long Peninsular war that followed. The ensuing brutality forced him to review his ideas.
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