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| Self portrait of Goya painted in 1820 |
| The Wine Harvest painted by Goya, 1786 |
| The milkmaid of Bordeaux painted by Goya, 1827 |
| The shooting of may 3rd painted by Goya, 1814 |
| The parasol Painted by Goya, 1777 |
| Young majas painted by Goya, 1897 |
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| Francisco de Goya Biography During the period 1775 to 1792 Goya painted cartoons for the royal tapestry factory in Madrid. As a tapestry designer, Goya did his first genre paintings, or scenes from everyday life. The experience helped him become a keen observer of human behaviour. This was the most important period in his artistic development. He was also influenced by neoclasicism, which was gaining favor over the rococo style. In 1780 he joined the Real Academy of Beautiful Arts of San Fernando. He was also elected to the Royal Academy of San Fernando in 1780, named painter to the king in 1786, and made a court painter in 1789. He became popular as a portrait painter. But in 1792 Goya was left permanantely deaf after a serious illness.This led to a sudden stand still in his creative and imaginitive world. Impaired by loss of hearing he increasingly became inclined to the misteries of human mind. In 1799 he published the Caprichos, a series of etchings satirizing human folly and weakness. His portraits revealed the inner fealings about his subjects as Goya saw them. Goya served as director of painting at the Royal Academy from 1795 to 1797 and was appointed first Spanish court painter in 1799. Between 1797 to 1799 he presented his series of engravings, the whims, in which, with deep irony, he satirizes the social defects and the superstitions of the time. During the Napoleonic invasion and the Spanish war of independence from 1808 to 1814, Goya served as court painter to the French. He expressed his horror of armed conflict in "The Disasters of War". His works based on the fight against the mamelucos and the executions in the mountain of Prince Pío are displayed in the Museum of the Prado. These paintings reflect the horror and trauma caused by the massacre of groups of disarmed Spaniards who fought in the streets of Madrid against the French soldiers. Thery were not published until after Goya's death. Upon the restoration of the Spanish monarchy, Goya was pardoned for serving the French, but his work was not favored by the new king. He was called before the Inquisition to explain his earlier portrait of " The Naked Maja". The famous black Paintings (c. 1820, Museum of the Prado) receive their name by their frightful content and not as much by their display of colors and are the one of the most excellent works of final years. His etchings on bullfighting, called the Tauromaquia was published in 1816. From 1819 to 1824 Goya lived in seclusion in a house outside Madrid. Free from court restrictions, he adopted an unique style of exression of his innermost fealings. The Black Paintings, executed on the walls of his house, reflected his darkest visions. In 1824, Goya went into exile in France after the failure of an attempt to restore liberal government. His death came in Bordeaux still in exile, on April 16, 1828. |
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