The Tormented Soul of Francisco Goya | Biographical Documentary
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Francisco Goya was born in a small village in Northern Spain in 1746. He rose from humble beginnings to become the most respected and highest paid painter of his day and Number One Court painter for the Spanish Royal family.
But something happened during a bout of illness in his forties and he turned away from his wealthy patrons in their gaudy palaces to paint the poor, the sick, the trampled and the mad.
There are many different theories as to what this illness could have been from malaria and lead poisoning to rare autoimmune disorders.
In this video I explore how his mysterious illness changed a conventional painting of aristocrats into a daringly modern artist, pushing back the frontiers of technique and challenging the social order.
Finding Out More
I enjoyed Robert Hughes’ life of Goya, more an exploration of his art than a genuine biography, but a very entertaining read. I also enjoyed a recent compilation of Goya’s letters to his friends which his inner thoughts and personality. I have listed these on my Amazon Store Page. www.amazon.com...
Academic References
Bouvier, P. (2011). ‘Yo lo vi’. Goya witnessing the disasters of war: an appeal to the sentiment of humanity. International Review of the Red Cross, 93(884), 1107-1133.
Cipriani, G., Cipriani, L., Picchi, L., & Di Fiorino, M. (2018). Art is long, life is short. Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828), the suffering artist. Medical Hypotheses, 117, 16-20.
Fernandez-Doctor, A., Seva, A., & Dening, T. (1994). A discovery throwing light on the illness of F. de Goya y Lucientes. History of psychiatry, 5(17), 097-102.
Guijarro-Castro, C. (2013). Could neurological illness have influenced Goya’s pictorial style. Neurosci Hist, 1(1), 12-20.
Morant, J. V. (2018). Sparks over Saturn: A Revision on Francisco de Goya´ s (1746-1828) disorders. NeuroRegulation, 5(2), 52-52.
Symmons, S. (2021). Sacks, giants, owls, cats: It's a mad world in the graphic art of Francisco de Goya (1746-1828). Forensic Science International: Mind and Law, 2, 100061.
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Prado Museum
Wellcome Collection
Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid
Music
Jota de "el cribero" de Cantalejo (Segovia) Performed by José Luis Castán. Fundación Joaquín Díaz. CC3.0
Isaac Albeniz - Suite espanola op. 47 - leyenda. Public domain via Musopen.com
Isaac Albeniz - Asturias - David Hernando Vitores CC4.0
Isaac Albeniz - Tango Op.165 Nº2 - David Hernando Vitores - Kayoko Morimoto (Wasei Duo) CC4.0
Pep Ventura La Capritxosa. Adolf Pla. Piano arrangement by Joan Llongueras. CC4.0
Manuel de Falla - Suite Populaire Espagnole - Cello Encores John Michel CC3.0
Tomas Luis de Victoria -O vos omnes - The Tudor Consort CC2.5
Antonio Soler - Sonata No. 3 in Sol maggiore per due clavicembali. Pracchia-78. Public Domain.
Bach - Cello Suite no. 1 in G major, BWV 1007 - Prélude & Sarabande Pablo Casals Public domain
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Video produced by Graeme Yorston and Tom Yorston.
I have never been convinced that Goya went insane. I think he saw the raw truth about human nature, stared it down, and created great images as his revenge.
I don't think he went insane either, but he did have periods of what sounds like delirium.
@@professorgraemeyorston it's less the mental illness and again you gaining the lense of which you become an easy scapegoat. The way you see yourself treated and therefore other disenfranchised is what turns the knob.
Dehumanization is not like you conceptualize or empathize with, the feeling is death of the self, and madness ensues from isolation. That's not self induced usually either. Just another notch on the post of a cold and determined world I guess...
I took him up in high school art class. I was one of the few students fascinated by his work ( I myself had a mental illness, so there.) As for the picture of the royals, Goya gave one person some dignity: the young lady holding the squalling infant; she was born with curvature of the spine and her portrayal with the baby was to disguise her physical handicap. Apparently, she was a kind, gentle soul.
Thank you, interesting fact!
One of my friends had muscular dystrophy, (still, a qualified mechanic, music shop owner, and early computer wizz), sharp minded chap.
One of my favorite artists, Goya’s art could be the stuff of nightmares but it was always unforgettable.
That it is!
Excellent! My favorite old master. A man for our insane times!
Very true.
I always feel more informed after watching your videos. You make history fascinating!
Awesome, thank you!
Some people have The blessing or the curse of seeing what others can't. Maybe is a mental desorder or a gift. One way or the other, Goya's art is magnificent.
Very true.
I was in El Prado last week. The impact of those paintings in real life is phenomenal. I could spend hours in the Goya section!
I haven't been for a long time, you've made me want to go back!
Professor, wonderful thank you!
Glad you liked it!
Great video. Thanks. I am a big fan of Goya's work. Especially the "Black" paintings. I still marvel that the Spanish court and the church let him get away with doing some of them. They certainly were not flattering.
Another tormented artist you may be interested in researching is Ralph Albert Blakelock, an American painter of the late 19th century who was institutionalized (so there may be some documented medical history to peruse)
His fame grew enormously during his confinement in a New York mental asylum and he became perhaps the most forged artist ever during this period.
Like Goya, Blakelocks paintings turned decidedly darker and darker as he aged. His paintings are magnificent.
Thank you for the suggestion, I'll look into him.
no modern art , Picasso or anybody without him. Even cartoonists.
He really is the start of modernism.
Your comment makes no sense.
Its true is puré avantgarde inclusively in a way is the first "War photographer of history" my " Holly Trinty " in painting is Velazquez-Goya-Picasso
A wonderful presentation as usual Professor. I'm sure that his early artistic disappointments, profound personal losses coupled with the wartime experiences and realization of his mortal fragility accounts for much of his darkness. His dark and satirical drawings seem to have a more authentic and free expression than his oil paintings, at least those of his commissioned works. His self portraits done with just a few strokes are master works. Thank you again for your beautiful presentation.
My pleasure!
Thanks again, I always learn watching your videos.
Glad to hear that!
I have studied Goya since I was a child (45 years later I'm still a nerd) and he is one of my favourite artists of all time. He was one of the first modernists, painting for himself, because he had to, as I do now. Your documentary here is really really good. I appreciate it so much. The only thing incorrect, is that he made etchings, not lithographs. This is important because he loved aquatint and his use of it, and tge way he used it, unbelievably modern at the time. It had been invented and only readily available in his lifetime. It was new and exciting and Goya mastered it's use as well as resin and without these etching techniques his prints would have been very different. They are what gives the light and dark, dramatic almost caravaggesque look his prints.
You may find it interesting to see how aquatint techniques changed his style.
Thanks again for a great video. Really enjoyed it.
PS being a hypersensitive artist who struggles with bouts of mental illness, I think a lot of Goya's mental illnesses are what most artists suffer from... extreme hypersensitivity... most extreme creative poeple, like me, haven't enough of a filter for life... all we see and hear, we feel so very intensely, it sits deeply inside... we are at work with our brains and hearts and eyes ans ears and hands feeling, sensing... feeling... all too much.... seeing qll the time... shadows, sounds, moods... its beautiful and all too much...
Many of us hypersensitive artists are magnets... (maybe a bit of Asperger's ) we haven't the ability to shield ourselves from the nastiness of society (and inside of ourselves). We have a hard time keeping a balance because the world is so very beautiful and so very cruel... when you take everything in so intensly, you also need to get it out again.
I truly believe this is where Goya's art, not what he made for his partons, but the art inside his inner modern self, was his coping mechanism. His therapy and survival and it gave us some of the best art the any man had yet conceived.
His massive losses at home, the things he saw, his deafness, what he lived through, what a rare thing to make it to 82!
Thanks again.
Glad you enjoyed it.
Yes you are
The one thing that always came up in the 3 years of Art History study, is that very few great artists we happy and we'll adjusted. And often the more unbalanced they might seem, the brilliant there work was.
Have you read the book Touched with Fire by Kay Redfield Jamison. It focuses on writers more than artists. She ploughed through their biographies for evidence of serious mood disorders. The rates of depression and bipolar in poets especially were sky high.
I think we like our creatives to have to suffer for their art!
It's a good book, but I don't agree with all of her conclusions.
That was awesome! Thank you so much. I must see more of your presentations on the great, immortal artists.
Thank you, there are a few now with more coming.
Thank you for this informative and sensitive presentation. The great power and magnificence of Goya's art makes the cause of his illness seem almost irrelevant. But it is interesting nonetheless. What an incredible artist!
Thank you, I agree, but he shows what people can achieve despite suffering ill health.
Great video once again and once again, food for thought.
Perhaps Goya was simply an artist and he absorbed all that he saw and felt the need to represent it, exteriorise it through paintings, etchings, etc. Sort of get it out of his being so he did not have to 'own' what he had seen and experienced. I tend to think that his portraits of royalty might have been so appreciated because they accurately resembled what the subjects saw in the mirror. Perhaps they wanted an accurate depiction of themselves and did not judge the portraits in terms of beauty. Goya represented what he saw, felt and thought, accurately. We know how he perceived his world through his paintings. Other artists living in the same era might have perceived it quite differently.
Another possibility is that he wanted to attempt to render in a painting what he witnessed - the challenge of taking a photo without a camera. His choice of palette and his style of drawing all enhanced the drama of the scenes. His royal portraits are in the colours of the court. Different topics, different palettes - all welcome challenges to an artist. The portraits and the commissioned work were done for people, the other work was done for Goya, perhaps like a diary of things seen and needing to be chronicled. He produced artwork continually, even when he'd been ill and it was difficult. He needed to paint/create, to put on canvas what had to be represented, so naturally a lot of his work was personal as opposed to public.
I have no idea what his illnesses could have been, but I'm not convinced they did anything other than frustrate him by preventing him to paint/create. The loss of all but one of his children would have been difficult, but he did live at a time when people were lucky if any of their children lived past the age of five. I'm not sure such tragedy would have been as traumatic as what we consider it to be in our age of modern medicine. Many babies died within moments of birth, so did many mothers. In research I have done in what is now Saone-et-Loire and Doubs departments of France (mid 1700's to early 1800's), I was horrified at death rates for mothers and babies. One of my ancestors lost two wives and two babies in the space of five years. His third wife and he had six children, of which three survived. It's amazing that the human race made it to the 20th century...
Thank you for writing this. It was perceptive and extremely interesting.
Interesting question - would the death of your children have been less traumatising because it was so common - I think it would have been just as devastating, but people had to get on with life back then. Now people can be "traumatised" by watching something on TV - I think that says more about society than about how the brain functions.
@@professorgraemeyorston I agree that death of a child is always devastating, as you say, but nowadays we expect (take it for granted) our children to live while back then they could only hope they would live. There is an expectancy factor that I think makes a difference in the coping mechanism.
I liked your eloquent conclusion. It seems to me that there was a combination of the external shock of the terrible events in Spain during the French occupation, with the way in which Goya was forced to turn in on himself by serious bouts of incacapacitating illness and his lasting deafness; resulting in a potent reaction in view of sensitivities that were already in him (as shown for instance in the quite early etching of the garrotte man thta you showed).
Thank you.
Panic Disorder and probably more than just one diagnosis. I find your channel interesting and I keep coming back. Thank you for your hard work bringing great content
Wonderful: grew up well aware of Goya. But your video makes him... Even more thrilling🎉
Thank you.
Well: we ALL have to face/explore our shadows. 😅 He was early: ahead of his time! ⏱️ Greatest painter of all times. Prefer him over any Dutch master. It’s all a matter of taste/resonance. Nice presentation, I enjoyed it a lot. 😻
Thank you.
And it's clear that the veneer of civility he portrayed in court paintings, existed in contrast to the extreme ignorance in the lives of people outside the "charmed circle" , written and portrayed in the flesh every day, in their poverty and filth, that the combination of unmitigated conflicts, brutalities and living horror shows before his tormented eyes.
This he witnessed faithfully and unavoidably, in the context of State and Civil wars in Spain, combined with the psychological torment of The Inquisition of society.
An honest artist's work could not be pleasant and complimentary , surely, to the system that authored and reified such cruelty and misery?
Would be great if you put Sylvia Plath on your list. One of my favorite writers.
I'll be moving onto her soon.
Nice indepth coverage of a man, his life,his art.
Thank you professor
Thank you.
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Dear Prof. GY,
Thank you for your incredibly thought provoking videos!
I LOVE them.
What a treat it is to hear your reasonings…
Raya
Such a marvelous and informative video! Thank you once again
Glad you enjoyed it.
This was so interesting! Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it.
Thank you for these informative and wonderful videos. Even the texts in the " more" sections are worth reading and not simply self-promotion.
Thank you - it's nice to know someone reads those bits!
Thank you. A talented and very interesting man.❤
He was indeed.
Really great. As much as anything in the Professor Yorston series > I admire his ability as a diagnostician, and his care in analysis .
Thank you.
I think some of Francis Bacon's work was definitely inspired by some of the black paintings.
Edit: Thank you for a great video on Goya
Alirio Diaz if I can recall? A great classical guitarist.
He was indeed.
Very interesting . I thought the acute visual disturbance and imbalance may have been Multiple Sclerosis (MS) but as you suggest the compendium of his symptoms over time makes it difficult to diagnose one disease entity .
MS has been considered, but doesn't rally fit his ability to continue painting into his 80s.
Genuine by thanks from Scotland. 🎨Superb!!
Thanks for watching.
Great video, super interesting.
Thank you! Love your name!
Goya might have had an acoustic neuroma on 8th cranial nerve (vestibular) which often causes hearing loss and certainly vertigo and other symptoms. NF2 is also on my list. Would be interesting to find out if any of his family members had any similar symptoms.
love your lectures, professor. I have personal experience with NF2 and when I heard this I had to comment. Thank you for your time and focus.
It could explain the deafness but not his other symptoms.
I humbly disagree. Vestibular nerve damage or irritation (which could affect other cranial nerves as well depending on the location and size of tumour) can cause a litany of symptoms including anxiety, balance disturbances, vertigo (incl nausea/abdominal issues), personality changes, fevers etc. Symptoms can flare and abate without causing too much permanent damage, or the symptoms could be permanent.
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Excellent. Amazingly well done. Wow.
Thank you very much!
I enjoy these so much, I'm disappointed when a weekend passes without a new one. But they wouldn't be of as high quality as they are if you didn't take your time with them. I don't know the extent of your knowledge of the great American jazz musician, Artie Shaw, or your interest in him if there is any, but he would make a fine subject for one of these. The same is true of the marvelous and tragic Bix Beiderbecke, the sphinx - like Ravel ( I've always wondered just how drastic the effect of his traumatic brain injury was in hastening his death ), and the extraordinary George Gershwin, who wrote many of his best songs in the last couple of years of his life, when his brain was being encroached upon by cancer. Gershwin finished his last song, Our Love is Here to Stay, about thirty six hours before his death. An autopsy showed that half his brain had been consumed by cancer.
Thank you, I'm trying to produce one a fortnight and there are some great suggestions there.
@@professorgraemeyorstonthank you, Doctor.
Goya is my favorite artist of all times. I think the radical change could have been out of disgust. Carlos IV was one of Spain´s worst kings in stark contrast to his father. The family portrait probably did flatter them. The Infanta Elena is a dead ringer for María Luisa so imagine what they really looked and acted like.
I agree, I think he had to have been trying to say something about them.
Could it have been a form of Meniere's disease? I found this very interesting. Goya is a fascinating artist. "Goya's Geister" is an entertaining version of the life and times and is a much better film than the critics said at the time of its release.
Some people have suggested that, but Meniere's disease doesn't have all the other symptoms he presented with.
The Dog is one of the most disturbing paintings I've ever seen. For me, it is much harder to look at than any of his "grotesques" however dark the subject matter may be.
What makes you say that?
Thank you. This was very interesting. I wonder, to add to your list of reasons for Goya’s change in subject matter (as I think they are all very likely, especially the lead poisoning), if he had an emotional breakdown triggered by over work, yet he kept working or was pressurised to keep working. I have a book titled, The Body Never Lies: The lingering effects of hurtful parenting by Alice Miller and I have another book called, Working With Monsters: How to identify and protect yourself from the workplace psychopath by John Clarke. I list these two books because one, it makes me think of how Goya was parented (as I’m interested in childhood emotional neglect and it’s negative impact in adulthood - Alice Miller looks at how a child’s humiliation, impotence, and bottled rage will manifest as adult illness - be it cancer, stroke, or other debilitating diseases) and two, what type of personalities Goya was working with in the establishment. The fact that he depicted the royals in an ‘ugly’ manner makes me think was Goya dealing with cunning, self-centred, ruthless and terrifying members of the establishment. Also, we only need to recall stories of (mostly) women (e.g., a governess, a servant girl) who were incarcerated into ‘mental asylums’ back in the day because of psychopathological behaviour inflicted on them by those in powerful positions (such as a Lord of a vast country estate), behaviours, such as gaslighting, making the person question their sanity and going insane in the process. It’s obvious Goya was in severe emotional pain. I too wonder about his diet. As we now know, their is a strong link between the gut and the brain, the gut being referred to as the ‘second brain’. I must say Goya was an amazing painter, even (as someone who does not like ‘dark’ subject matter) the ‘dark night of the soul’ paintings and evil looking ones. There’s a truth in these paintings. Evil certainly continues to be ever present in our world today. Though so is goodness/Love. I try to focus on the latter, being mindful of the former. It makes me think, how many ‘Goya’s’ are their in today’s society battling this dark night of the soul. As always, your videos are thought provoking. A thumbs up 👍
This channel draws an unusually talented audience, some of whom leave extremely interesting comments. Yours is one of them. Thanks for taking the time to do it.
I'm sure you're right with all of these points, trauma seems to have the biggest impact on those already traumatised by something else in their lives and as for the impact of diet on health - I think medicine is only now starting to take this seriously - I am currently supervising a PhD student on some research in this area.
@@bobtaylor170 Thank you Bob for your positive and, I must say, kind comment. The area of human behaviour isn’t my profession, but it’s certainly a fascinating one, though at times complex and confusing, leaving many unanswered questions. Interestingly, it’s in finding the answers to these many why’s that I enjoy. Then I can share my knowledge on RUclips videos, such as this one, when I see the need : )
@@professorgraemeyorston Thank you for your acknowledgment of the information I shared and your positive reply. It sounds like your PhD student is focusing on an important topic, the connection between the gut and mental health. I was thinking, to add to this topic of discussion, a person can eat the healthiest diet, but if their body is continually pumping out the stress hormone cortisol and/or they’re holding onto angry emotions (even unconsciously), for example, towards their parents, then all their effort will most likely be counterproductive. I believe healing needs to include three areas - body (with diet, exercise, getting out in nature), mind (changing your thoughts, forgiveness, self love) and spirit (getting in touch with your feelings/emotions). This is a very simplistic overview of a complex area. To add to this, environmental factors need to also be considered. A person can go off and be ‘healed’ using this three way approach, but if they return to an environment where others, let’s say, toxic family members have not healed, that person can easily fall back to their ‘old’ self. Sometimes, going no contact, removing oneself from that toxic environment is key. Wishing your PhD student all the best and yourself too, as their supervisor. Look forward to your next video.
@@catherinepatterson4720 you're welcome!
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I agree that his portraits are often quizzical, almost primitive, childlike faces. I am utterly baffled why Goya would shortchange interesting faces.
I wonder if it it was his subtle rebellion.
14:15 The people of the Spanish royalty look like normal people. Instead of a conventional portrait, he was making natural portraits which is why the royal family liked him. I think it helped them remember what people actually looked like, like how we see old photographs today.
Another brilliant piece of work. Thank you very much. Have you done el Greco?
Not yet! I'll look into him.
Probably my favorite artist. I have a ridiculous number of his prints in my house
Los caprichos?
You are my favorite ❤
SO LITTLE IS KNOWN ABOUT HISPANIC ARTISTS TY
GREAT DOCUMENTATION
0:03 that was quite the surprise
I love Goya and lots of other painters who paint darker subjects, Francis Bacon, Bosch, I just love thinking what could have inspired subjects like this. I don't know why he painted horses with such small heads though. Funny you should say that about that portrait of the Queen, she looked really odd but so did the previous King, its like hyper realistic sometimes but totally weird at other times, I much prefer the darker stuff. The nude Maja has the line of pigmentation up her belly that you get when pregnant lol!
Me too. I hadn't noticed the linea nigra, but the painting is apparently one of the first to show pubic hair!
That stroke was no joke.
He painted the truth of his times as a witness.
I hate that saturn painting with vengence. Just foul. Great documentary. Thank you.
It is a dark painting, but I love his darkest works.
Goya’s mystery illness that caused him to have ringing ears, difficulty standing/walking, and eventual deafness sounds more like some kind of middle or inner ear infection to me.
That would not explain all of his symptoms.
PTSD IS HUGELY UNDIAGNOSED
It was not a fearless life, .. rather a life full of fear, because he knew he was pushing his luck.
I agree he was brave to paint the royals how he did.
Thanks!
like to give a little when I find something stellar. rock on
Thanks Tyler, much appreciated.
Hello professor, I really love how you explain in your videos , thank you so mush ♥️
You are very welcome
TY HISPANIC HISTORY AND PTSD
Glad you enjoyed it.
If he had a bone tumor in his leg, isn’t it possible he had a bony tumor within his cranium? No skull to study, but was there something interesting about it causing it to be pilfered as a curiosity?
Tumour just means swelling - it is often taken as synonymous with cancer, but it wasn't in the 19th century. As you say with no skull to examine, we are just guessing.
Thank you, very interesting! I don’t understand when you say Civil War. It really was the French invasion and fight against the French cruel troops! Goya was always an “afrancesado” , he was a follower of the French new culture, he believed that compared with the superstitious old conservative SPain, the progressive French new ideas, would help Spain. But when the French troops arrived with all their brutality against unarmed locals…I think that was a shock, that produced depression.
As I understand it, the fighting ins Spain wasn't just against the French but against competing factions.
Demons-🎯💯👍 It is the outlet or mood of energy of the soul. Art is what is in the mind's eye put down to material.
Goya's early stuff looks blurry to me, like a pastiche of oil painting by someone who could barely be bothered. The nightmarish stuff is way better.
If the change in his art needs a medical explanation then I'd go with what we today might call depression and back then would probably have been called oppression of spirits (rather than full-blown melancholia)
The cartoons are deliberately simple as they were going to be made into tapestries but I know what you mean.
Please can anyone tell me the name of the painting at 21:09? I love the way that skeleton is drawn!
Slipped back into, that is.
He might also have taken Artemisia for malaria treatment. It has some neurotoxic, ototoxic compounds, which can lead to severe permanent tinnitus and permanent deafness in some individuals. Especially when vaporized. Some antimalarial quinolines can have high neurotoxicity. They also cause vestibular problems. Artemisia derivatives can also cause dream-like experiences and psychoses in susceptible individuals. Another, but linked, explanation - he might have had high cortisol levels due to chronic stress and have glucocorticoid-induced altered consciousness states, which then flared up periodically, when his cortisol elevated. Glucocorticoids can induce uprise of dopamine. It can induce manic and depressive states, and delerious states when not habituated.
Although Artemisia was used for malaria in China, I'm not sure it was used in Europe.
Are not the horrors of the day enough?...what he saw and heard effected his heart and mind that hurt his health, life can do that to someone so astute as he.,...ps i believe your analysis to be correct.
Thank you.
RELIGIOUS ART SOUNDS RIGHT
Reality kicked in.
Very fine work! Thank you for the lesson.😊
Glad you liked it!
Prado Museum in Madrid is the Mecca of Goya' s in the world here conserved more of half of this works the frescoes in the dome of church of " San Francisco el Grande" in Madrid are a magnificents and curioulsly he worked in Casa Botin the oldest restaurant in the world founded in 1.725 was a dishwasher
I haven't been in Madrid for many years, but doing this video made me want to visit Madrid and Zaragoza.
I would also have gone mad if I had to live during the times of the Spanish Inquisition....
Difficult times, so easy to offend someone powerful.
War and deafness!!
GLAD YOU HAVE DR MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE
THOSE DOCUMENTS WITH QUIL PENS IN SPANISH MUST BE DIFFICULT
I feel most artist has different periods though there lives. I looked at many artist work in chronological order. Example if one looks Pablo Picasso start of his cubism, quite few of his subject are looking down. In the early 1900's he also did his blue period about sickness and death. Sorry I got off the Goya work.
I have wonder what is going on in the artist work. I know artist said they say they aren't political but I just don't buy this. I find most artist is leans to liberal side. Once again great work.
Thank you. I guess we all change over the course of our working lives - but for artists their early work remains on show. I wonder what some of my early reports look like!
What you said at the end is most likely his truth.
Time.
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Thank you.
MCAS?
AYSLUM YES I BELIEVE
The good ol' days..(where, if you could draw, you had a job?)..
Evelyn. BA Fine Arts..
Thats what "scary good" means?..
First war time "photographer "
In many ways, he was an early photo-journalist.
I've always admired his artwork. But his portraits of royals are absolutely hideous. Maybe he just painted them as they really were.
I think he was showing their corruption.
@@professorgraemeyorston Great presentation. Yeah, I think I remember you mentioning that. 👍
Thank you for this. I must admit that I always liked his drawings' subject showing a merciless society, but I always thought him to be an awful painter of portraits with their clumsy and odd anatomy and bad quality.
Yet he could clearly paint "nice" portraits when he wanted to!
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The paintings of the two Myers. I have always believed that the clothes one is real and the naked one a work of imagination. When I was very young and without access to live models I used to draw nudes from bikini photographs with similar result,
The nude one was for the private collection of Manuel de Godoy, the man she was having an affair with, kept in a locked cupboard. I guess it depends how accurate Godoy wanted it!
If you measured the body on each painting I think you would find that the nude was based on a tracing of the other. I don't think Goya ever saw her naked.
The glimpse of pubic hair seems a very early rendition of such in the history of pornography.
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INQUSITION THAT WAS TERRIBLE MUST BE CATHOLIC
Goya's symptoms sound like a diabetics. I wonder if he had type 2 🤔.
Some are, but diabetes is unlikely to make you go suddenly and permanently deaf.
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You want to see the dark evil side of mankind? Hang around the rich. Diabetes also causes many of these problems as it greatly damages the nervous system. You never speak about their diets save alcoholism. (Which also causes diabetes).
There is no information on his diet.
Would like to have edited my comments. Read for sense, please, anyway.