Goya to me represents a surreal experience, scary and a sense of activism for change. He forces the viewer out of his comfort zone, it's quite stark and refreshing.
Love the inclusion of his later, more light hearted work after the drama and despair of the black paintings and 3rd of May which he is mainly remembered for.
Yes! Whether he actually found some peace in Bordeaux is hard to determine as his health was on the decline and he was losing his sight (which must be a fate worse than death for an artist), but it’s interesting that the Black Paintings are often considered his final work when he continued to create for several years afterward.
Wow! As far as I was told, Goya's last paintings were the "Black Painting series". Even mainstream media say those were his final series. So I always thought he died with a very obscure perception of life. Glad to know he could manage to represent some of a tranquil sense in his final works...
That’s an interesting point! The Black Paintings are definitely his most dramatic/enigmatic works, so it makes sense that we think of them as his swan song. It’s hard to say how he saw the world in his final days, but it seems that he was (hopefully) able to summon some semblance of peace before he died. He definitely had a rough go of it!
recently found this channel as I am teaching myself about modern art and I love it, I love your voice and the descriptive nature of your words these videos are so amazing !
I’ve seen his 2nd and 3rd May pieces and the 3rd has always stuck with me... the way the light emanates from the terrified victim... Truly one of the greats
Filled with progressive optimism and then disillusioned by tragedy, ignorance, war, and despots. That's why I relate to de Goya's art. It's been a large influence on my own.
I really appreciate these videos. Even though I'm an artist (Digital Artist) I feel I'm quite ignorant when it comes to art history, these videos feel like high quality Art history lessons.
I was at work today --- depressed and jaded --- where I stumbled across an old desk from a former co-worker. On the desk, was a print of a painting that struck me to the core, there was a small black figure surrounded by a dark brown void. I interpreted the small black figure as one's soul consumed by sorrow and loneliness with a vast emptiness surrounding which would eventually consume it into nothing. I walked around with the print and asked a co-worker, "have you ever felt like this?" He looked at me and said, " That's Goya, and that one isn't as dark as his other works of art" ---- I've been down the rabbit hole ever since. Thank you for your time and effort in showing this man's work. The painting in question is "The Drowning Dog," my new favorite work of art.
Wow! Awesome that you stumbled upon that poster, Goya is a prime discovery when you’re feeling existential. I think the Drowning Dog is his most poignant painting too. It’s probably his simplest composition but it screams volumes.
I came here to learn more about Goya, but the painting at 1:07 has captivated me. The first thing I noticed was the breathtaking shading of light and shadow. Then the faces. So realistic that it's almost like a photograph. And, taking in the rest, the horror of this painting creeps its way into my mind. The girls on the right, one looking away and covering her face while a man is trying to persuade her to look. The younger seeming of the two girls has the look of a child that's innocence has been shattered. Now I have to know more about Joseph Wright. This is my first introduction to him and his work so I guess this is a longwinded video suggestion lol
Joseph Wright of Derby is an excellent suggestion! Until then, you can check out more of his work over on Artvee. His landscapes are particularly impressive. Thanks for watching! artvee.com/artist/joseph-wright-of-derby/
Hey, history of art student here! This video is an amazing introduction to Goya and his works. :) Did you guys use any specific sources for this video? Or do you have any literature recommendations going a little bit deeper into Goya's work? I'd love to read more about him, especially about his earliest and latest works and the letters you showed in the video. Thank you!
Hi! We get our information from many reputable sources but our favorite by far is the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s own website (and it’s also where Rachel works). It’s a great place for you to start your own research. 😊
Goya is one of the greats; encapsulating that he was beyond mere artist, but a forward thinker. Would love to see a video on a fellow forward thinker, "Rose Cecil O'Neill" as she swam into the oceans of both cute illustrative art and the darker side of humanity, but was also a suffragettee.
I realize that there are plenty of video essays about him, but I'd love to hear your thoughts on Salvador Dali, including his stuff involving film and animation.
Hola Angelajsacaartistaffiliatedwpl, espero que mi comentario no haya sonado como una forma de invasión de la privacidad. Tu comentario habla de una mujer maravillosa con un corazón hermoso, lo que me impulsó a comentar. Normalmente no escribo en la sección de comentarios, pero creo que te mereces este cumplido. Si no te importa podemos ser amigos? 🌺Gracias Dios los bendiga….🌹🌹
@@angelajsacaartistaffiliatedwpl Hi Angela I hope my comment didn't sound as a form of privacy invasion your comment tells of a wonderful woman with a beautiful heart which led me to comment I don't normally write in the comment section but I think you deserve this compliment. If you don’t mind can we be friends? Thanks God bless you….🌹🌹
A Bit of Trivia- Depending on the child’s age, when the disease struck, and if qualified tutors were available, the son’s deafness may have made it impossible for hm to inherit property since recitation of Catholic/religious texts was a requirement to inherit. Thankfully schools for the Deaf were eventually established in France, England, and later in the US.
Discovered Goya from a nerdwriter video and have been interested in his work since, great video as always. Just curious is "Glassing the monarchy" a Halo reference? Keep up the great work :)
At the Prado, three paintings stand out. The dog losing his meat (Aesop, and not Goya I think), but then Saturn eating his son, with huge mad eyes. And the execution scene.
Will you be doing Velázquez or Francisco de Zurbarán? I'm a sucker for the Baroque:) I was in the Prado once, it's funny watching people reacting to the Saturn painting.
They’re both on the list! I love Zurbarán’s work, it’s so creepy (in a good way). We do have a Caravaggio video if you like the Baroque period! ruclips.net/video/QL8kNFfxyB4/видео.html
All-embracing and highly pertinent commentary. Many thanks, S.C. Goya - remarkable elasticity 'new masters' could still learn from (if only). It's unfortunate the academic reliance on convenient categories (classical/romantic, etc) - if such poles were necessary measures, but they ultimately prove too facile. As with Beethoven, Goya's work combines 'head' and 'heart' (to borrow the prevalent cliches) - i.e. reason - emotion, and the two are interdependent, interwoven and, as analysis etymologically has it, should be LOOSENED and not seen as separate entities in our catgeorising manoeuvres. I wonder if critical appraisal could adopt a new language of 'sets' corresponding to the complexities that exist as opposed to the boxes that are superimposed and then have to be yet again deconstructed every other year or so! Goya is such a flexible artist (it's no wonder that Picasso, equally so, should have been mammothly inspired by his work) that he demands some artistic neologisms! After you, Maestro S.C.! i do long to hear you comment critically in perhaps a separate batch of 'circles'....? Anyway, your programmes should be written into the constitution as a must to watch and learn from. MB
So kind as always! Thank you 🙏 Totally agree that there should be far more elasticity, as you say, when considering artists like Goya who operated outside the confines of any one movement or trend. That’s why I like the term ‘continuum’ when referring to the art history timeline - feels a little less rigid/linear and doesn’t keep artists boxed into the narrow period of time in which they lived. Goya is transcendent!
Hola kategilesful , espero que mi comentario no haya sonado como una forma de invasión de la privacidad. Tu comentario habla de una mujer maravillosa con un corazón hermoso, lo que me impulsó a comentar. Normalmente no escribo en la sección de comentarios, pero creo que te mereces este cumplido. Si no te importa podemos ser amigos? 🌺Gracias Dios los bendiga….🌹🌹
I always thought that the Saturn painting was about Saturn returning POST prophecy and devouring his son he never did ie why the son is seemingly an adult
4:55 Charles III died in 1788, not 1888. Also, at the height of Goya’s influence, the Spanish Inquisition was grinding away until it was disbanded on 15th July 1834. Not exactly the best environment to be noticed by the red puppets of the Vatican.
Very good overview crammed with so much political background as well as wider art refs. I will be honest, I decided to slow down the speed to 0.75 so that I could take in the pace of info!
The best paintings in there are by Velasquez and Manet, I'm afraid, at least when it comes to craft or beauty. Goya's contributions are in his graphic depictions of horror, but his paintings fall short of virtuosity. I know it's sacrilege to say this, but, there it is. Take a close look at his first painting of Maja. If you can find her neck, I'll be impressed. Her left hand? Oh my God, the palm is too long and it looks like a crab claw. But the breasts, well, let's just say there's so much space between them that a third could be planted in the middle with room to spare. Sure, one could be off to the side because of gravity, but the other one is floating in zero gravity. Oh no. I looked at the hands again. He's also a master of unintended horror. I know my opinion is anathema and blasphemy. But I can't unsee her necklessness!
I have been aware of Goyas more famous paintings for many years. I was surprised how bad his earlier works are As an exampleThe Family of the Duque de Osuna , from 1788. The children in particular look like mannequins or wooden dolls to me.
A lot of his figures seem to lack weight. They often look superimposed onto whatever surface or background. A lot of bright white eyes and poor perspective/foreshortening. The darker more impressionist works forgive a lot of the issues present in his baroque art
I humbly request you to change the thumbnail of the video, if possible. 🙏 It is very disrespectful towards the great painting and the great Artist, Goya. 🙏
I feel a strong sympathy for De Goya. I can’t help but connect that some of the black paintings could have been interpretations (specifically 'Fight with Cudgels' and 'Witches Sabbath') of a world where his fellow men embraced the devil, (Ferdinand) and turned on each other out of fear. It must have been disgusting to come to this bleak understanding of man’s ultimate frailty. His years of haunting, silent decline make me pity him, and simultaneously resent the nature of men.
Well.. could have invited Moor's back it it wasn't for there genocide..there age of enlightenment was probably closer to truth ..how to invite white Arabs from Tunisia to translate it for them...
@@hunkydory3521 Jocelyn Pook - Goya's Nightmare Composed especially for the film Sexual scene + eating a child ruclips.net/video/c2ioRBNriG8/видео.html&t
Goya to me represents a surreal experience, scary and a sense of activism for change. He forces the viewer out of his comfort zone, it's quite stark and refreshing.
You're gonna love Otto Dix then
Oh my God, Goya is definitely my favorite painter, his work is SO good and his drawings, incredible!
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Love the inclusion of his later, more light hearted work after the drama and despair of the black paintings and 3rd of May which he is mainly remembered for.
Yes! Whether he actually found some peace in Bordeaux is hard to determine as his health was on the decline and he was losing his sight (which must be a fate worse than death for an artist), but it’s interesting that the Black Paintings are often considered his final work when he continued to create for several years afterward.
@@TheArtTourist I must admit, I've never taken a deep dive into his work so until this video I was under that impression myself.
Wow! As far as I was told, Goya's last paintings were the "Black Painting series". Even mainstream media say those were his final series. So I always thought he died with a very obscure perception of life. Glad to know he could manage to represent some of a tranquil sense in his final works...
That’s an interesting point! The Black Paintings are definitely his most dramatic/enigmatic works, so it makes sense that we think of them as his swan song. It’s hard to say how he saw the world in his final days, but it seems that he was (hopefully) able to summon some semblance of peace before he died. He definitely had a rough go of it!
recently found this channel as I am teaching myself about modern art and I love it, I love your voice and the descriptive nature of your words these videos are so amazing !
Agreed, she's got a lovely voice!
I thought I was seeing things when your animated Goya blinked, it took me a while to realise he was actually animated and I'm not losing it 😅
Ha! We love it when people notice!
I’ve seen his 2nd and 3rd May pieces and the 3rd has always stuck with me... the way the light emanates from the terrified victim... Truly one of the greats
Totally agree, the 3rd of May in particular is as haunting as it gets - he completely upended the tradition of portraying war as valorous.
Filled with progressive optimism and then disillusioned by tragedy, ignorance, war, and despots. That's why I relate to de Goya's art. It's been a large influence on my own.
I really appreciate these videos. Even though I'm an artist (Digital Artist) I feel I'm quite ignorant when it comes to art history, these videos feel like high quality Art history lessons.
I was at work today --- depressed and jaded --- where I stumbled across an old desk from a former co-worker. On the desk, was a print of a painting that struck me to the core, there was a small black figure surrounded by a dark brown void. I interpreted the small black figure as one's soul consumed by sorrow and loneliness with a vast emptiness surrounding which would eventually consume it into nothing. I walked around with the print and asked a co-worker, "have you ever felt like this?" He looked at me and said, " That's Goya, and that one isn't as dark as his other works of art" ---- I've been down the rabbit hole ever since. Thank you for your time and effort in showing this man's work. The painting in question is "The Drowning Dog," my new favorite work of art.
Wow! Awesome that you stumbled upon that poster, Goya is a prime discovery when you’re feeling existential. I think the Drowning Dog is his most poignant painting too. It’s probably his simplest composition but it screams volumes.
Appreciate the beauty of art, the narration, the host, and the artists... congratulations
this Series woke my interest in Art. Love the Format.
los capricios are truly a masterpiece. when I first stumbled upon them, it made me appreciate all the art with darker under tones.
Los caprichos.
I greatly appreciate that you include the influences and presence of the political and social contexts! I learned a lot thank you guys :)
I’l’ use this comment to give my respects and admire the stunning voice of the narrator.
I came here to learn more about Goya, but the painting at 1:07 has captivated me. The first thing I noticed was the breathtaking shading of light and shadow. Then the faces. So realistic that it's almost like a photograph. And, taking in the rest, the horror of this painting creeps its way into my mind. The girls on the right, one looking away and covering her face while a man is trying to persuade her to look. The younger seeming of the two girls has the look of a child that's innocence has been shattered.
Now I have to know more about Joseph Wright. This is my first introduction to him and his work so I guess this is a longwinded video suggestion lol
Joseph Wright of Derby is an excellent suggestion! Until then, you can check out more of his work over on Artvee. His landscapes are particularly impressive. Thanks for watching!
artvee.com/artist/joseph-wright-of-derby/
so beautiful and informative as always... 💕
Thank you!! 🙏
I just found your channel and I am in love!! Great work!
Thank you so much! Glad you found us :)
My RUclips crush is back 🥰 woo !
Thank you for the vids :)
Well done!
Great pacing and editing!
Glad you think so!
This channel is amazing
What a voice, I like it
Thank you!
Great Video, Thank You!
Great video!
Hey, history of art student here! This video is an amazing introduction to Goya and his works. :)
Did you guys use any specific sources for this video? Or do you have any literature recommendations going a little bit deeper into Goya's work? I'd love to read more about him, especially about his earliest and latest works and the letters you showed in the video.
Thank you!
Hi! We get our information from many reputable sources but our favorite by far is the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s own website (and it’s also where Rachel works). It’s a great place for you to start your own research. 😊
@@TheArtTourist Thank you so so much! :)
Goya is one of the greats; encapsulating that he was beyond mere artist, but a forward thinker.
Would love to see a video on a fellow forward thinker, "Rose Cecil O'Neill" as she swam into the oceans of both cute illustrative art and the darker side of humanity, but was also a suffragettee.
excellent video
What a great breakdown!
I realize that there are plenty of video essays about him, but I'd love to hear your thoughts on Salvador Dali, including his stuff involving film and animation.
Absolutely! His films are such a fascinating part of his practice so that’d make for a really fun video. Will do!
Thomas Hart Benton was relegated as just a regionalist and Pollock's teacher. However, he was a lot more. Can you talk about Benton? Thanks
Can anyone tell me the name of the background instrumentals?
Beautiful surrealist painter. Lithograph is lovely.
Hola Angelajsacaartistaffiliatedwpl, espero que mi comentario no haya sonado como una forma de invasión de la privacidad. Tu comentario habla de una mujer maravillosa con un corazón hermoso, lo que me impulsó a comentar. Normalmente no escribo en la sección de comentarios, pero creo que te mereces este cumplido. Si no te importa podemos ser amigos? 🌺Gracias Dios los bendiga….🌹🌹
@frankuvlkan English please
@@angelajsacaartistaffiliatedwpl Hi Angela I hope my comment didn't sound as a form of privacy invasion your comment tells of a wonderful woman with a beautiful heart which led me to comment I don't normally write in the comment section but I think you deserve this compliment. If you don’t mind can we be friends? Thanks God bless you….🌹🌹
@@angelajsacaartistaffiliatedwpl Hi Angelajsacaartistaffiliatedwpl good morning how are you doing.
@@frankuvlkan ok thx
What an interesting channel. Subbed!
I love your expression on the thumbnail.
The sleep of reason produces impossible monsters. Yet coupled with imagination is the mother of all the arts.
Love this
Needs more views, really
Great stuff
Great stuff as always. Requesting Francis Bacon :)
You got it! Thanks for watching! ✨
A Bit of Trivia- Depending on the child’s age, when the disease struck, and if qualified tutors were available, the son’s deafness may have made it impossible for hm to inherit property since recitation of Catholic/religious texts was a requirement to inherit. Thankfully schools for the Deaf were eventually established in France, England, and later in the US.
I got to see some Goyas at the Prado museum in Madrid in 2019. :)
Amazing! Always better in person ✨
@@TheArtTourist it is for sure, too bad i couldnt take photos there.
the 3d of May , 1808 is huge in size. I saw it at the Prado
As someone who is very reactionary and counter-enlightenment Goya is something to behold.
I love your channel
Thank you!
Discovered Goya from a nerdwriter video and have been interested in his work since, great video as always. Just curious is "Glassing the monarchy" a Halo reference? Keep up the great work :)
Thank you!! And no! I know nothing about Halo, maybe it’s seeped into collective consciousness :)
Seeing the painting reminded me of the time we are in today 2023.
What a sweet voice, made the video more enjoyable ;) Greetings from Spain
Thank you!!
I love these videos. Could you do one on Rene Magritte?
Absolutely! Love Magritte :) Thank you so much for watching!
At the Prado, three paintings stand out. The dog losing his meat (Aesop, and not Goya I think), but then Saturn eating his son, with huge mad eyes. And the execution scene.
we would like to see a bio on michael bookout's art in california thank you
Will you be doing Velázquez or Francisco de Zurbarán? I'm a sucker for the Baroque:) I was in the Prado once, it's funny watching people reacting to the Saturn painting.
They’re both on the list! I love Zurbarán’s work, it’s so creepy (in a good way). We do have a Caravaggio video if you like the Baroque period!
ruclips.net/video/QL8kNFfxyB4/видео.html
@@TheArtTourist I'm about to read Andrew Graham Dixon's book on him:) I'm watching one or two of your vids every day.
When Goya illustration blinked at a moment in his story as if to affirm to the viewer....saw that too, right?
👀
All-embracing and highly pertinent commentary. Many thanks, S.C. Goya - remarkable elasticity 'new masters' could still learn from (if only). It's unfortunate the academic reliance on convenient categories (classical/romantic, etc) - if such poles were necessary measures, but they ultimately prove too facile. As with Beethoven, Goya's work combines 'head' and 'heart' (to borrow the prevalent cliches) - i.e. reason - emotion, and the two are interdependent, interwoven and, as analysis etymologically has it, should be LOOSENED and not seen as separate entities in our catgeorising manoeuvres. I wonder if critical appraisal could adopt a new language of 'sets' corresponding to the complexities that exist as opposed to the boxes that are superimposed and then have to be yet again deconstructed every other year or so! Goya is such a flexible artist (it's no wonder that Picasso, equally so, should have been mammothly inspired by his work)
that he demands some artistic neologisms! After you, Maestro S.C.! i do long to hear you comment critically in perhaps a separate batch of 'circles'....? Anyway, your programmes should be written into the constitution as a must to watch and learn from. MB
So kind as always! Thank you 🙏 Totally agree that there should be far more elasticity, as you say, when considering artists like Goya who operated outside the confines of any one movement or trend. That’s why I like the term ‘continuum’ when referring to the art history timeline - feels a little less rigid/linear and doesn’t keep artists boxed into the narrow period of time in which they lived. Goya is transcendent!
Hola kategilesful , espero que mi comentario no haya sonado como una forma de invasión de la privacidad. Tu comentario habla de una mujer maravillosa con un corazón hermoso, lo que me impulsó a comentar. Normalmente no escribo en la sección de comentarios, pero creo que te mereces este cumplido. Si no te importa podemos ser amigos? 🌺Gracias Dios los bendiga….🌹🌹
I always thought that the Saturn painting was about Saturn returning POST prophecy and devouring his son he never did ie why the son is seemingly an adult
4:55 Charles III died in 1788, not 1888.
Also, at the height of Goya’s influence, the Spanish Inquisition was grinding away until it was disbanded on 15th July 1834. Not exactly the best environment to be noticed by the red puppets of the Vatican.
Ah! 🤭 Good catch...thank you!
No worries.
Oh Boya, De Goya
Error: King Charles the 3rd died in 1788, not 1888 as said at 4:57
Thanks! We already have an edit in the video’s description acknowledging the error.
Very good overview crammed with so much political background as well as wider art refs. I will be honest, I decided to slow down the speed to 0.75 so that I could take in the pace of info!
He’s drawn with boiling lines in ed, edd, n eddy
Lol that thumbnail.
nice eye blink
... where's the cat?!
He was feeling a little stubborn that day! But he’s in the title sequence 😺
You look so beautiful!
The best paintings in there are by Velasquez and Manet, I'm afraid, at least when it comes to craft or beauty. Goya's contributions are in his graphic depictions of horror, but his paintings fall short of virtuosity. I know it's sacrilege to say this, but, there it is. Take a close look at his first painting of Maja. If you can find her neck, I'll be impressed. Her left hand? Oh my God, the palm is too long and it looks like a crab claw. But the breasts, well, let's just say there's so much space between them that a third could be planted in the middle with room to spare. Sure, one could be off to the side because of gravity, but the other one is floating in zero gravity. Oh no. I looked at the hands again. He's also a master of unintended horror. I know my opinion is anathema and blasphemy. But I can't unsee her necklessness!
I have been aware of Goyas more famous paintings for many years. I was surprised how bad his earlier works are As an exampleThe Family of the Duque de Osuna , from 1788. The children in particular look like mannequins or wooden dolls to me.
@@gavinreid5387 Yeah, I don't know why people can't acknowledge that. You can still be a great artist but not be perfect.
A lot of his figures seem to lack weight. They often look superimposed onto whatever surface or background. A lot of bright white eyes and poor perspective/foreshortening. The darker more impressionist works forgive a lot of the issues present in his baroque art
I humbly request you to change the thumbnail of the video, if possible. 🙏
It is very disrespectful towards the great painting and the great Artist, Goya. 🙏
I feel a strong sympathy for De Goya. I can’t help but connect that some of the black paintings could have been interpretations (specifically 'Fight with Cudgels' and 'Witches Sabbath') of a world where his fellow men embraced the devil, (Ferdinand) and turned on each other out of fear. It must have been disgusting to come to this bleak understanding of man’s ultimate frailty. His years of haunting, silent decline make me pity him, and simultaneously resent the nature of men.
Beautiful host of the show,will you marry me 🥰
Your attire often seems to be in tune with your subject matter.
Goya was much balder than depicted in the drawing..
Unfortunately it didn't work
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Well.. could have invited Moor's back it it wasn't for there genocide..there age of enlightenment was probably closer to truth ..how to invite white Arabs from Tunisia to translate it for them...
#EyesWideShut
Love that movie but what does that have to do with de Goya?
@@hunkydory3521
Jocelyn Pook - Goya's Nightmare
Composed especially for the film
Sexual scene + eating a child
ruclips.net/video/c2ioRBNriG8/видео.html&t
pretentious
How so?
Don't use words, you don't understand imbecile.
If you're looking for fairly obscure....you should consider doing one on the art of jack kevorkian. Anyways, great video!