Goya

Goya: the name alone evokes innumerable masterpieces, both painted and printed: the crude and brutal “Tres de mayo de 1808”, the nightmarish etchings of Caprichos (with the famous motto “The dream of reason produces monsters"), the irresistibly erotic "Naked Maja" and "Clothed Maja," the savage Disasters of War series, and, of course, the late Black Paintings, with their murky forebodings of public unrest and private turmoil. Although Goya's influence on his contemporaries was minimal (overshadowed as he was at the time by artists trained in the classical style of David and Ingres), it can now be clearly traced from Manet, through Picasso, to Surrealism, Polke, the brothers. Chapman and more.No one expressed the ravages of war and the extremes of human experience like Goya; it made him the envy of Picasso, who, as a young artist, copied his signature over and over again, as if to absorb the personality and skills of his one supreme influence. And it is perhaps the wildly imaginative freedom of Goya's late work that has kept him so contemporary, that and the palpable emotion in his brushwork, so full of impact and sensation. Here, José Gudiol, renowned author of essays and monographs on Velázquez, El Greco and Spanish art, offers a serious introduction to the massive subject that is Goya. Author: José Gudiol Language: Spanish Binding: Hardcover Pages: 128 pp. Dimensions: 22.5 x 2 x 29 cm Publisher: Ediciones Polígrafa