Francisco Goya

Subject: Francisco Goya Mon Apr 28, 2008 4:09 pm

Can someone not love his paintings?

By the way, did anybody watch Godard's "Passion"?

Subject: Re: Francisco Goya Mon Apr 28, 2008 4:21 pm

I adore that painting Smile

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I can't say that I 'adore' this painting, but it does something, indeed. Makes one think, question, project: as all art should. This piece, finished in 1815 speaks just as profoundly today. War sucks.

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Goya was a fashinating painter indeed. My parents wet to Spain and saw some of his paintings at the Prado museum.

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I have yet to find a painting by Goya that did not move me in some way. He was a master of depicting raw emotion on the canvass.

Are any of you familiar with Caravaggio? He was an Italian painter wanted for murder who was on the run throughout Europe. His paintings are dark and powerful. Below is one of David with Goliath's head.

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I teach a course on the Bible as Literature and I use this one when I show how the Bible has influenced art throughout history. I love it!

Subject: Re: Francisco Goya Fri Jul 24, 2009 12:58 pm

Goya painted a portrait of the Duke of Wellington:

Black stubble.
Horsey teeth.
Sunburned forehead.
A man of violence.

You'll recall that Wellington was fighting to evict the occupying armies of Napoleonic France from the Iberian peninsula at the time. Not exactly a flattering portrait of your liberating ally....but, hey...the artist paints what he sees.

Subject: Re: Francisco Goya Sat Jul 25, 2009 3:15 pm

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Subject: Re: Francisco Goya Sat Jul 25, 2009 5:49 pm

No, not that one- but thanks all the same. The Goya portrait of Wellington I'm thinking of is much less flattering.

Subject: Re: Francisco Goya Tue Sep 01, 2009 10:43 am

Eddie wrote:

Sunburned forehead.

I couldn't have been more wrong about this.

Of course, the forehead is pale because the Duke wisely wore a hat on campaign; it's the rest of his face that is reddened by the ferocious Spanish sun and wind.

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I have that first Goya painting as a print on canvas. A family member got it for me in Madrid at the Prado. Everyone sees it and questions why have such a morbid painting on our wall! I have a nother one of a famous nude he did too. his style is fantastic!

Subject: Re: Francisco Goya Mon Sep 21, 2009 1:02 am

This is the portrait I was thinking of: red face and pale forehead.

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I remember when I saw this painting in Madrid when I was 12. The whole dark paintings gallery by Goya impressed me.

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