Goya Visual Breakdown of the Work of Art PDF

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Goya artist, breakdown of a specific work that he did....

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Goya, You Who Cannot, Caprichos Plate 42, 1799

- Goya (in Spain, Spain thinking about their future) Goya drawing ideas from enlightenment writers in France - reading and engaging in French cultural activities like salons (intellectual meeting place)

- Goya feels sympathetic and protective of the Spanish people (competing impulse in comparison to enlightenment ideas)

- “we have to understand that Goya is a professionally ambitious artist. He was fairly well connected with artists in his home province, but his own home province is considered provincial compared to the court capital in Madrid. He actually pays his own way to go to Rome so that he can practice painting there and establish a certain level of prestige for his own artistic profile at the time. Then in the 1770s and 1780s, he makes a series of six etchings, and Goya will show himself to be quite a talented etcher. In my personal opinion, I think Goya is a better etcher than painter, but that's just an opinion.”

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