Tag Archives: Goya Los Caprichos

caprichos: folly ridden assemblies

Posted on February 15, 2011 by Dave

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 →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous | Tagged Alan Woods, Aldous Huxley, Francisco Goya, Fred Licht, Goya Los Caprichos, Mark Vallen, Philip Hofer, Reva Wolf, Robert Hughes, Sarah Symmons | Leave a comment

Los caprichos: a wasteland of reason

Posted on February 14, 2011 by Dave

But if Francisco Goya saw vice, corruption and foolishness in high places, Goya, unlike many of his contemporaries in France and England , did not discover a compensatory nobility in the common man. In fact, the contrary. His first great … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous | Tagged Diego Velasquez, Donald Kuspit, E.H. Gombrich, Emanuel Swedenborg, Francisco Goya, Goya Los Caprichos, Kenneth Clark, Lisa Abend, Mesmer, Robert Hughes | Leave a comment

viscious frailties at the most extreme

Posted on February 14, 2011 by Dave

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 →