What is your favourite piece of work by Goya?

I saw it in the Prado

You'll love it if you do

I also love that etching, 'El sueño de la razón produce monstruos' (the sleep of reason brings forth monsters).

http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/RP-P-1921-2064

But I like all the 'Caprichos' series.


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If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot. - E.M. Cioran

His portrait of the noted Enlightenment figure, Gaspar de Jovellanos.



http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/Francisco_de_Goya_y _Lucientes_-_Gaspar_Melchor_de_Jovellanos.jpg















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Goya is one of the greats that, for some reason, I've never really warmed to. I appreciate his qualities but never quite feel them... I don't know why for sure, but I can't love his work. Not that the picture you link to isn't fine, though.

My theory, which may be complete bullsh!t, is that Goya expresses a sort of cruelty - a cruelty of the eye - and this repels me, viscerally, and compromises the other attractive qualities. But that may be nonsense. Perhaps I just don't get his Spanish darkness...



Call me Ishmael...

Indeed. A kind of angry, almost sinister quality.


http://c300221.r21.cf1.rackcdn.com/goya-don-manuel-osorio-manrique-de- zuniga-1347075219_org.jpg















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