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Goya

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Francisco De Goya, EL Greco, Velazquez, Picasso-this is the pantheon of Spanish painters. Each was a genius, immune to convention, who rewrote the rules of painting in his time. Here, the Spanish art historian Jose Gudiol explores Goya's complex character and technique, grounding his discussion in the common talk of the artist's life — a childhood of poverty, humiliation in the face of the academic painters of Madrid, an illness that left him deaf and isolated from society at mid-life. This prodigiously productive artist, who finally attained the post of First Court Painter and created some of art's greatest portraits, plunged privately into an abyss of despair, out of which he brought some of the most terrifying works of the nineteenth century paintings and prints evoking the disasters of war and the irre-pressible voices of the subconscious. That the same artist could produce, toward the end of his long life, the haunting, awesome Witches' Sabbath and the radiantly pensive Milkmaids of Bordeaux is a paradox that defies unraveling. It may be suspected

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Call Number

R 759.49 GUD g

Publisher

New York : Harry N. Abrams., 1985

Collation

p.130; 25 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

810909928

Classification

Painting in Europe/Seni Lukis di Eropa

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Edition

Cet.1 1985

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but insecure in his relationships with the outer w

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