October 12, 2003
Goya
I've been looking for an excuse to post this image for some time. Francisco Goya surfaced in The Australian's Weekend Magazine (no link) this weekend. The article was concerned about the authorship of the 14 images known as the Black Paintings.
Goya, The Dog, The Black Paintings
Some comments on Goya's work by Robert Hughes.
There is some scholarly dispute as to whether Goya painted the Black Paintings. Goya put the "Black Paintings" directly on the wall of his private home. The term "black painting" was spawned by art historians wanting to classify the images in some nomencultural way. The individual titles were derived from what Goya's children called the images after Goya's death.
The Dog is a great image regardless of authorship.
Goya was of the Enlightenment but he disclosed its reverse.
Malraux wrote a magnificent book on Goya: "Saturne, essai sur Goya", Paris, Gallimard, 1950.
I don't know if there is a version in English.
Derek Allan
Posted by: Derek Allan on October 18, 2003 08:37 PMDerek,
Thanks. It would be interesting to read. I'll try and track it down.