Together, the etchings and paintings summarize Goya's contribution to war art per se. |
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Goya's painting represents the most dramatic scene in which Don Juan arrives at Don Gonzalo's tomb in a fierce thunderstorm. |
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Despite their faintness, Goya's lines retain everywhere a sense of hard physical toil. |
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By Goya's time the most interesting and original artists were no longer interested in this particular kind of symbolism or any kind of allegory. |
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From the first his work was macabre and fantastic, influenced by Goya's Caprichos, the drawings of Beardsley, the eroticism of Rops, and the symbolism of Redon. |
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It possessed a phantasmagoric nightmarish atmosphere, as you might have anticipated from a ballet inspired by Goya's gritty, bitter 18th century etchings Los Caprichos. |
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There is a smaller room that shows Goya's pinturas negras, blackly painted at the end of his life, when the artist was suffering from depression and slowly going mad. |
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Goya's portraits of the Spanish royal family represent a sort of peak in the honest and downright unflattering portrayal of important persons. |
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In 2003, with a series of works named Insult to Injury, they altered a set of Goya's etchings by adding funny faces. |
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Yet at the same time, the horrific imagery demonstrates Goya's keen artistic ability in composition and execution and produces fitting social and political outrage. |
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Goya's illness, perhaps saturnism caused by toxic fumes from lead salts in the paint he used, brought chronic headaches and permanent hearing loss. |
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Such works are far removed from the difficult, seemingly disharmonious approach in late Beethoven or the darkness visible of Goya's late black paintings. |
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Hearing that his wife was posing in the altogether for the great Spanish satirist, the Duke of Alba swore that he would paint Goya's picture in Goya's blood. |
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This is not only good for our art and history students, but also those in printmaking classes because of Goya's use of aquatint, which was very much ahead of its time. |
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