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the future was now: faster faster
There has always been a link, an association, between Italian futurism and different strains of fascism. Ironically, futurism’s desire to overthrow the old and was followed in a parallel manner by the Dadaists and Marcel Duchamp to overturn existing aesthetic … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Woods, Filippo Marinetti, Frederico Fellini, Italian Fascism, Italian Futurist art, Italian Futurists, Lina Wertmuller Love and Anarchy, Lina Wertmuller Seven Beauties, Luigi Russolo, Marcel Duchamp, Max Horkheimer, Patricia Erens, Prampolini, Theodor Adorno
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ghosts of bordeaux: deceptions and perceptions
A seventy-seven year old Francisco Goya left Spain for France in 1823; he still held his position as first painter to the court, but even so, with the final triumph of Ferdinand, he had gone into seclusion. Goya saw Spain … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Woods, Albert Camus, Eugene Delacroix, Francisco Goya, Fred Licht, Goya Bordeaux period, Jesse Bering, Philip Hofer, Reva Wolf, Richard Dorment, Sarah Symmons, Sigmund Freud, Victor Hugo
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3 rd of may: shoot in may and go away
Like all great historical and philosophical themes, analyzing the Third of May is somewhat vulnerable to some superficial and not necessarily valid interpretations. The originality of Goya’s treatment in his depiction of the executioners. Where they might expectedly have be … Continue reading
grim tidings: disasters and masters of war
A preoccupation with mystery, violence and the irrational was always present in Goya’s art. As the years passed, casual observations of the foibles and horrors of the world were transfigured into a vision of life that came to dominate his … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Woods, Diego Velasquez, Edouard Manet, Eugene Delacroix, Francisco Goya, Goya, Graeme Mitchell, Kendall L. Walton, Kenneth Clark, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Matthew Brady, Meissonier, Nicolas Poussin, Pablo Picasso, Trevor Malkinson
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caprichos: folly ridden assemblies
The “Caprichos” of Francisco Goya were among the first etchings to be done with aquatint, and were completed between 1796 and 1798 then put on sale the following year in book form. They had begun to take shape in the … Continue reading
viscious frailties at the most extreme
At the Spanish court, Goya was advantageously placed to observe vicious frailties at their most extreme. At the time that he became Painter of the Household, Charles IV had just succeeded to the throne in place of an elder brother … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Woods, Ann Coulter, Diego Velasquez, Donald Kuspit, E.H. Gombrich, Francisco Goya, Goya, Goya Los Caprichos, Goya Naked Maja, Jerry Vines, Kenneth Clark, Mel Brooks, Otto Dix, Robert Hughes, The Duchess of Alba, Voltaire
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an enemy of irrational tendencies
Goya’s life was split in two near its midpoint by an illness that very nearly killed him when he was forty-six years old. If he had died, he would have left a large body of work establishing him as one … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Woods, Andrew Martin Goya, David Sylvester, Diego Velasquez, E.H. Gombrich, Francisco Bayeu, Francisco Goya, Kendall L. Walton, Kenneth Clark, Milos Forman, Muriel Julius, Natalie Portman, Robert Hughes, The Duchess of Alba
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revolutionary for reason: consciousness of a tragic humanity
Horror. The world one usually associates with the work of Goya. Even in his brilliant early years as a court painter, an air of evil hung suspiciously in the background of his rococo paintings. Then, after his illness, they lept … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Woods, Andrew Martin Goya, Dante Alighieri, David Sylvester, Diego Velasquez, E.H. Gombrich, Edouard Manet, Eugene Delacroix, Francisco Goya, Goya, goya Black paintings, Goya's Ghosts, Kenneth Clark, Michel Serres, Natalie Portman, Robert Hughes, Theophile Gautier
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ACROSS AN EPIC NOT INTIMATE UNIVERSE
”But Turner—especially in his own last years—was not at all hostile to the incoming empire of technology. Quite the opposite: he believed that the speeding train or the chugging paddle steamer could be turned into a visual lyric that married … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Woods, Burke, Carl Jung, Charles Holme, Claude Monet, Goethe, Goethe color theory, Impressionist Art, Jackson Pollock, John Constable, John Elderfield, John Ruskin, Joseph Farington, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Schama, Sigmund Freud, Simon Schama, Stanley Cavell, Thackeray, William Hazlitt, William Parrott
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