Goya (The Hidden Masters)
Goya (The Hidden Masters)
Master Works Press | 1984 | ISBN: 0717270933 | English | 216 pages | PDF | 37.5 MB
The most outstanding characteristic of this hot-blooded Aragonese hidalgo was his antiintellectualism. Goya's art belonged to the people; his grotesque and irreverent figures, dashed off with rapid brushstrokes or quick flicks of pen or pencil, are the unvarnished projections of a milieu whose vices and virtues he distorted in a series of fantastic and often irrational configurations. He portrayed the whole thing with extraordinary artistic vitality, as well as with an impressive degree of realism, in a wide range of shades and colors of beautifully controlled intensity, without any of the verindulgence in technical minutiae that typifies a certain brand of academic art. For the first time in the history of art the ordinary people were thrust into the foreground: the revelation of their grief and suffering reflects the way in which Goya shared the wounded feelings of his fellow countrymen in the anti- Napoleonic uprising of 1808.