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A superbly observant and entertaining book that includes the profiles of 32 surrealist artists, and a study of the last of the old masters, who was also one of the first modern greats
The history of art isn’t short of painters and sculptors so famous and influential they only need a single name. Think Titian, Picasso, Rembrandt…
April 2, 2021 Exhibition Date: April 5, 2021 – Ongoing Dreamlike and wonderous, yet gravely dark and harrowing, are all descriptors associated with Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes’ (1746-1828) last major print cycle, Los Disparates (or Los Proverbios). Published in 1864, thirty-six years after the artist’s death, these masterful etchings are still considered to be enigmatic and ambiguous, eluding definitive explanation and interpretation. While the Spanish term “disparate” translates imperfectly to “folly”, in Goya’s time the term held harsher connotations closer in mea...
The Goya Code Chapter 4: Three Kings and an Emperor for the Crown of Spain Fig 1. - Principal characters of the Pilgrimage of San Isidro. Photo by Mariano Candial By Antonio Muñoz-Casayús MONTREAL .- The War of Independence against Napoleon has begun. There is no turning back. Francisco de Goya was the war correspondent and the witness to all of the aberrations committed, transmitting them to us through his impressive engravings and paintings. "There has never been a good war, nor has there been a bad peace." (Baltasar Gracián. 1601- 1658. Jesuit, philosopher and writer). HISTORICAL C...