Goya was a Romantic painter; these unique artists aimed to break free from traditional rules and selected their own subjects. Romantic painters were independent of the social order and distinguished themselves from European culture as Goya did. These artists including Goya set out to grasp the moment of tragedy and combat. Goya excelled in the late Baroque and Rococo styles in his youth, but never entirely incorporated the influence of Neo-Classicism, (attributed from the influence of Meng) which was predominant in Spain and Europe throughout 18th-19th Century. Goya was an artist whom was ahead of his time, he decided to follow his own aesthetic feelings and created works full of self. Goya is said to be the last of the old masters and …show more content…
The painting is dark both in lighting and style to carry the attitude of the hopelessness and desperation present in such an event. Goya began to create works of an allegorical and mythological nature. However the greater part of his works consisted of religious art, studies of contemporary life and portraiture. The French Revolution made an immense impact on Goya. While he’d supported the French Revolution, he was traumatized by the horrors and enslavement he witnessed during the event. While his works had previously displayed a passion in social and political commentary, art historians have noted that his work grew mournful in both colour and content originating with these paired rebellion paintings. Goya was influenced by the political climate of Spain and France, which included the French Revolution and its following war.
Materials, technique and processes
To communicate his ethics and emotions Goya used a variety of mediums such as etchings, fresco, sketches as well as traditional oil based paintings. Goya’s initial method of slicing brushstrokes made him a forerunner of sorrowful twentieth-century art. He was a great transitional figure who changed the custom while changing the future. In his long life, he produced masterworks in a variety of artistic styles and he often depicted subjects in unsparing …show more content…
Major influences were painters such as Jose Luzan and Franacisco Bayeu. During his journey to Italy he came into contact with Classicism and the initial stages of Neo- Classicism, which were to have temporary, superficial influences upon his work.
He began a campaign of during in albums, his style and subject matter change radically at this point in 1793.
Goya examines the human and natural response to this disaster
During this war Goya executed the prints known as the disasters of war, this was not war reporting but a series of imagined visual reflection on the violence and phonon associated with this war. Throughout his life he continuously sought ways to gain fame and earn money.
Goya’s sardonic view of life’s wacky and weird moments covers much of his works throughout his