Francisco de
Goya y Lucientes (1746€“1828), who came to artistic maturity during the age of Enlightenment, is
considered the most important Spanish artist of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth
centuries.
Over the course of his career, Goyas paintings, drawings, and
etchings moved from bright and cheerful to deeply pessimistic. I find the last years of his
career, and particularly his black paintings," particularly interesting. These paintings
are expressionist visions which communicate the pessimism and cynicism of a man inhabiting a
dramatic realm of fantasy and nightmare. Apart...
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