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Madrid: This is where the Spanish artist, Francisco Goya, lived and worked. He was an artists of the Enlightenment but he lived through an appalling war. The result was the first big shock art of the modern era. Matthew Collings, This is Modern Art II: Shock! Horror! Channel 4 1999
The real father of modern art … Goya: the father of shocks. ibid.
They [pictures] seems to mirror from two centuries ago the weirdness and randomness and blackness of the world we live in. ibid.
We like it when art is about feeling … We are going to meet two great 18th century artists who were in on that: the French painter David and the Spanish painter Goya. They both lived through the explosion of the French Revolution and the fallout from it. Matthew Collings, This is Civilisation II, BBC 2007
David and Goya depict the new startling world of human emotion … Their art is our witness. ibid.
For David and Goya, Renaissance art is the first glimmering of a change in human consciousness. From faith to reason. And reason releases feeling. ibid.
Before Giotto the heavenly beings of religious art have been flat symbolic beings for a thousand years. With Giotta they’re rounded, they’re physical, they have human life. ibid.
Goya and David are interested in humanity. How do you picture it? The Renaissance does it with a single face. ibid.
The art of Francisco Goya, the Spanish counterpart to David. David mirrors man’s noble soul, Goya descends into the subterranean depths. Goya in the 1790s is the moment when the artist doesn’t just paint what he’s told, he also paints his own imagination: the unasked for, the uncomfortable, the unwanted. ibid.
Goya and his circle dream of revolutionary values coming to Spain … The dream turns to a nightmare. ibid.
Goya is a liberal progressive, a man of the enlightenment. He doesn’t just deplore humanity’s dark side – he is the great tireless explorer of it … Goya becomes the prophet of the new scariness about human destiny. ibid.
The art of feeling. Feeling gone wrong. Francisco Goya sleeps in his studio. Nightmares coming out of his head. ibid.
Both David and Goya are about heightened feeling. ibid.
We have a humour based on despair. ibid.
Goya has often been described as the last of the great old masters and the first of the new. He painted sublime portraits of the Spanish royal court, and celebratory pictures of the good life in Spain. But he also produced some of the most harrowing images of human cruelty ever created. Great Artists with Tim Marlow s1e19: Goya, Sky Arts 2003
A year after completing The Milkmaid, Goya died in Bordeaux on 16th April 1828. He was 82. ibid.
Goya is a pivotal figure in the history of art. ibid.
The National Gallery in London held a show that was twinkling with five-star reviews: the show, many years in preparation, was called Goya: a portrait. Tim Marlow, Great Art: Goya – Visions of Flesh & Blood, ITV 2019
One of art’s most revolutionary, passionate and popular artists. ibid.
The greatest painter of the European Enlightenment as well as one of its challengers was the great Spaniard Francisco de Goya. Tim Marlow at the Courtauld 2/3
3rd May 1808: this too was the response of an artist seething at cruelty and massacre. In this case the execution in Madrid of the rebels who had risen against Napoleon’s invading army. Simon Schama’s Power of Art: Picasso, BBC 2006-2008
The black paintings seem to me to be an endgame for Goya. Simon Schama, Civilisations 1e7: Radiance, BBC 2018
The series of etchings Los Desastres de la Guerra (The Disasters of War 1810-14) records the horrors of the Napoleonic invasion. His masterpieces in painting include The Naked Maja and The Clothed Maja (c.1800-05). He also painted charming portraits such as Senora Sabasa Garcia.
For the bold technique of his paintings, the haunting satire of his etchings, and his belief that the artist’s vision is more important than tradition, Goya is often called ‘The first of the moderns’. His uncompromising portrayal of his times marks the beginning of 19th-century realism. The Complete Works online
Goya: He painted an extraordinary expression of his despair: they are known as the black paintings, black in subject matter and black in colour. Andrew Graham-Dixon, The Art of Spain III: The Mystical North, BBC 2008