Goya

Fransisco Goya  (1746–1828) was a mediocre painter, sentimental, and generally offensive, but then between 1819 and 1823 he stopped painting pudding-y aristocrats and began to manically adorn his dinning a sitting rooms with a series of 13 tenebrous and nightmarish murals. They are monstrous and magnetic, almost reminiscent of the psychotic James Ensor, and strike such a sharp contrast with the cloying quality of his earlier paintings which, in my humble opinion, should be lost to the annals of Western art. In addition to twelve of the thirteen paintings I have also included a number of his more disturbing etchings, many of which were created in response to the Napoleonic wars and the various schisms Spain endured in its wake.