Francisco Goya

Goya is well known for his thought provoking and perhaps disturbing paintings, especially “Los Caprichios”. While the primary purpose of these 80 something etchings was to depict the abuses of the Catholic Church, societal ills, and superstition, however they also demonstrate a very interesting perspective on the psychology of sleep and dreams, particularly in relation to monsters. This collection presented the condemnation of follies and foolishness is a rather informal, almost free form way, a…

The iconic paintings Guernica and Executions of the Third of May appear to be very different paintings, but yet very similar in numerous ways. These two paintings are similar according to their symbolism, emotion, and art technique; however, despite the similarities, these paintings still have differences such as the art styles, color schemes, and era. Guernica and Executions of the Third of May are paintings that have some similarities and differences that make them recognizable to the modern…

the character, but on the encounter between the two. “Los desastres de la guerra”. (Francisco De Goya - The Complete Works). Caspar David Friedrich, born 1774, was the most important painter of the German Romantic movement. He is best known for his later allegorical landscapes,which seek to find the beauty and mystery in nature, such as “Cross in the Mountains” and ”Wanderer above the Sea of Fog” (Francisco De Goya - The Complete Works). Joseph Mallord William Turner, born 1775, was an English…

executioners. The exhibition is a mixture of patriotism and fascination, however, the most important tribute is out of tune. In these paintings, Goya does not praise the fervor of the resisters: he shows hanged men, raped, orphans, impaled Spaniards and French axes, naked bourgeois and poor mendicants. That is the face of the war that Francisco de Goya observed, including the face of wars as noble as the…

On the 7th of December in 1941, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The following year, in the middle of February, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 that allowed for the relocation of all those living in coastal Washington, Oregon, and California with Japanese ancestry. Those living on the West coast were relocated to desolate places far away from the Pacific Ocean and placed in camps with other Japanese Americans. There were a few reasons for the relocation of Japanese…

Global art cinema has been a widely contested term among film critics and scholars alike. The term was created to help categorize and define a genre of film that directly opposes First Cinema, or commercial cinema produced and distributed by Hollywood in the United States. In the book, Global Art Cinema, Second Cinema, or art cinema, has been summarized by authors Rosalind Galt and Karl Schoonover, as being feature films typically including “...foreign production, overt engagement of aesthetic..…

Francisco Franco played a very large part in Spain’s military and government history. From his early years, Franco was involved in the military and climbed the ladder to eventually be general and dictator of Spain. At the highest point in his career, Franco lead the Nationalists rebellion against the government which eventually resulted in his position as dictator of Spain. Eventually adopting the name of “El Caudillo”, Francisco Franco would lead Spain into what is now a democracy. Francisco…

determined that the time was not right, and they wouldn’t be able to mount a meaningful opposition to the current government in place. From here on is where the Spanish Civil War begins. It starts and is centered around a military General named Francisco Franco. After the new government took over in 1931 and stripped power from the military, Franco was demoted and placed on the military inactive list. He went along with it and accepted his new role for Spain. In 1933 conservative officials were…

Francisco Franco Francisco Franco y Bahamonde and commonly known as General Francisco Franco is a Spanish military commander who was pro-monarch. He ruled his country through the Spanish Flanque or Phalange Party with an iron fist at the end of the Spanish civil war which took place in the 1930s, he was the first to form such kind of party, he established close relationships with fascism and Nazism during World War II. The man was subjected to international isolation after the war in which he…

Since Francisco came to the throne of Spain the number of Europe tyrants became 3, "Hitler, Mussolini, Francisco" And the strange was that despite the help of the communism and the participants for Francisco to reach power, they were the first that he got rid of them after he reached the judgement, and like Hitler and Mussolini he had made himself a leader and father of Spain and decided to choose a nickname for himself like, ( Hitler," the Führer "and Mussolini" Ducci ")Francisco took the title…