Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

(1746 – 1828)

History

• Goya was a court painter to the Spanish Crown, a chronicler of history.

• In his early years he was mostly influenced by Velazquez.

• He has been regarded both as the last of the old masters and as the first of the moderns.

• He painted for these kings: Carlos III, Carlos IV, & Ferdinand VII.

• Influenced some major artists, notably Manet and Picasso.

• He lived through the political dysfunction of changing leadership in Spain, the revival of the Inquisition, military occupation of Spain by France, and the installment of Napoleon's brother Joseph Bonaparte as the King of Spain.

• Goya, as did many others, left the country in a search for stability. Though he would return on trips to the Spain he had lived in for most of his eighty-some years, Goya died an exile in Bordeaux, France.

• 2 types of art

– Italian Realism (everyday life)– Black Paintings (Satirical)– a loathing for the weaknesses and the proud

cruelties of “evil men”

• “I am Goya!... I am the voice Of war, the charred wood of towns...I am the throat of the woman whose hanged body, like a bell,clanged over the empty square...I am Goya!”

Autorretrato

Tan lejos de su abuelo

As far back as his grandfather

El sábado de brujas

Witches’ Sabbath

Disparates

Stupid things

La familia Osuna

The Osuna Family

El parasol

The parasol

Carlos IV y su familia

Carlos 4th and his family

Un ciego toca la guitarra

A blind man playing the guitar

Tres de mayo

3rd of May

La maja desnuda

The nude maja

Carlos tercero

Carlos the 3rd

Naturaleza muerta con la cabeza de la oveja

Still-life with the head of a sheep.

¡Grande hazaña con muertos!

Great heroic deeds with dead people!

Dos majas en el balcón.

2 majas on the balcony

El vendedor de cerámica

The pottery seller

Saturno devora a su hijo

Saturn devouring his son.

María Teresa de Bourbón