Francisco de Goya
Francisco de Goya, sometimes called the father of modern art, he was born on March 31,1746 in Fuendetodos, Spain. When he was in his early teens, he began studying art and spent much of his time in Rome, Italy. So he could advance his skills. In the early 1770’s he begun to do work for the Spanish Royal Court. A lot of his works criticized social and political problems of the time.( "Francisco De Goya." Bio.com) Francisco was the son of a guilder, in his early youth he spent most of his time in Saragossa, Spain.
He began doing his first paintings at the tender age of 14. His teacher Jose Luzan Martinez was inspirational to Goya although at first he learned by imitating other artists and great masters such as Velazquez and …show more content…
In the final years of his life while Ferinand V11 was in power, Goya was still with the Spanish court. Even though he had worked some with Joseph Bonaparte, Ferdinand reportedly once told Goya, “You deserve to be garroted, but you are a great artist so we forgive you”. ("Francisco De Goya." Bio.com) Knowing how risky it was to express his dissatisfaction to Ferdinand V11, Goya still expressed his dissatisfaction through a series of etchings called, “Los Disparates” which were paintings featuring carnival themes, they also featured folly, lust, old age, suffering, and death. With such morbid themes to his work, Goya seemed to demonstrate a level of absurdity at times, some could even call it insanity or maybe he was just pretending to be that way to gain more fame in his art work. ("Francisco De Goya." Bio.com)
In the early 1824, Goya went into exile because of the political climate was so very intense. Goya thought he might have been safer if he were to be outside of Spain. So he then moved to Bordeaux, France. That is where he spent the rest of his life. He still painted despite having poor health; Most of these paintings were portraits of his friends, who were also living in exile as well. Francisco De Goya passed on, April 16. 1828, in his home Bordeaux, France. ("Francisco De Goya." …show more content…
In this painting there is a Spanish man with his arms outstretched. The man is on his knees. If you look very closely you can see piercing in the palms of his hands. The central figure is surrounded by a bunch of men. They are in various states of emotions. Some of the men cover their eyes, others are in prayer, while at least one covers his ears. ("The Executions of the Third of May, 1808.") There is a monk in prayer beside the men. In the foreground in front of this group of men you see a pile of bloody bodies of executed men. The men are dead in a pool of blood that flows into the center of the painting and you can see the blood covering their bodies. In the central figure, There is a lantern that illuminates the entire scene of the execution. The execution takes place outside the city, away from the spectators. ("The Executions of the Third of May, 1808.") There seems to appear to be a cathedral in the distance. You see the men against a boulder that are about to be executed. The painting has a bleak and somber mood about it. The artist has chosen earth tone colors, and there is a contrast of dark and light. The dramatic lighting technique or chiaroscuro is in the central figure the young Spanish man with his arm's open wide. ("The Executions of the Third of May,
Francisco de Goya, sometimes called the father of modern art, he was born on March 31,1746 in Fuendetodos, Spain. When he was in his early teens, he began studying art and spent much of his time in Rome, Italy. So he could advance his skills. In the early 1770’s he begun to do work for the Spanish Royal Court. A lot of his works criticized social and political problems of the time.( "Francisco De Goya." Bio.com) Francisco was the son of a guilder, in his early youth he spent most of his time in Saragossa, Spain.
He began doing his first paintings at the tender age of 14. His teacher Jose Luzan Martinez was inspirational to Goya although at first he learned by imitating other artists and great masters such as Velazquez and …show more content…
In the final years of his life while Ferinand V11 was in power, Goya was still with the Spanish court. Even though he had worked some with Joseph Bonaparte, Ferdinand reportedly once told Goya, “You deserve to be garroted, but you are a great artist so we forgive you”. ("Francisco De Goya." Bio.com) Knowing how risky it was to express his dissatisfaction to Ferdinand V11, Goya still expressed his dissatisfaction through a series of etchings called, “Los Disparates” which were paintings featuring carnival themes, they also featured folly, lust, old age, suffering, and death. With such morbid themes to his work, Goya seemed to demonstrate a level of absurdity at times, some could even call it insanity or maybe he was just pretending to be that way to gain more fame in his art work. ("Francisco De Goya." Bio.com)
In the early 1824, Goya went into exile because of the political climate was so very intense. Goya thought he might have been safer if he were to be outside of Spain. So he then moved to Bordeaux, France. That is where he spent the rest of his life. He still painted despite having poor health; Most of these paintings were portraits of his friends, who were also living in exile as well. Francisco De Goya passed on, April 16. 1828, in his home Bordeaux, France. ("Francisco De Goya." …show more content…
In this painting there is a Spanish man with his arms outstretched. The man is on his knees. If you look very closely you can see piercing in the palms of his hands. The central figure is surrounded by a bunch of men. They are in various states of emotions. Some of the men cover their eyes, others are in prayer, while at least one covers his ears. ("The Executions of the Third of May, 1808.") There is a monk in prayer beside the men. In the foreground in front of this group of men you see a pile of bloody bodies of executed men. The men are dead in a pool of blood that flows into the center of the painting and you can see the blood covering their bodies. In the central figure, There is a lantern that illuminates the entire scene of the execution. The execution takes place outside the city, away from the spectators. ("The Executions of the Third of May, 1808.") There seems to appear to be a cathedral in the distance. You see the men against a boulder that are about to be executed. The painting has a bleak and somber mood about it. The artist has chosen earth tone colors, and there is a contrast of dark and light. The dramatic lighting technique or chiaroscuro is in the central figure the young Spanish man with his arm's open wide. ("The Executions of the Third of May,