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The winter Old men eating soup
3. Francisco de Goya y Lucientes
was born in Fuendetodos
(Zaragoza) in 1746 and studied
to become a painter. After
a slow learning period in his
homeland, in the context of the
late Baroque stylistic and
devotional pictures, he
Fuendetodos
travelled to Italy in 1770, where
(Zaragoza)
he got in contact
Neoclassicism .
4. From 1775 to 1792 he worked for the Royal
Tapestry Factory, designing tapestry
cartoons. His style was luminous and
colorist, with loose brush-strokes. Some
examples of these cartoons are Blind man
´s bluff, The grape harvest, The Straw doll,
The four seasons, The parasol. The
tapestries were made by threads of gold
and silver.
He worked for the court since 1775, The parasol
painting nine paintings for the decoration of
the living room of the Asturias’s Princes-
future Charles IV and Mary Louise of
Parma- in the Escorial. The paintings that
belong to this series were The hunt for the
quail, Dogs in leash and Hunt with owl and
network.
Blind man´s bluff
5. THE GRAPE HARVEST.
Author: Francisco Goya
Chronology: 1746-1828
Commissioners: This painting was
commissioned by the royal family. This painting
was destined to the dining room of the Pardo
Palace in Madrid.
Present location: El Prado Museum, Madrid
(Spain)
Material: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 275cm x 190cm
Movement: Rococo
Description: Dressed in yellow clothes that
symbolize autumn, a young man sitting on a THE GRAPE HARVEST
stone offers a cluster of black grapes to a lady. A
boy is eager to reach the offered fruit, which is Rococo: This painting belongs to this
reserved for the adults. A woman stands next to movement because some of the
them, holding a grape basket on her head, much characteristics of this movement are
like the classical allegory of the goddess Ceres the luminosity of the painting and the
with fruit on her head. Some grape harvesters are painting of the nature. Also in this
behind them, next to the grapevine that leads to a movement there was a predominance
valley crowned with the suggestion of mountains of the clear colours.
in the background.
6. Some examples of this movement that this painter made were:
Doña Isabel de
Porcel Don Ignacio Garcini y
Manolito Queralt
Osorio
7. In 1792 he suffered from a serious
illness and became deaf. This
deafness completely changed his
personality: he became withdrawn
and his painting became more
critical and introspective and colours
were darker. Imagination, freedom
and critic became central on his
painting. Some of the works he
made in this period were the
frescoes of the Church of San
Antonio de la Florida in Madrid,
Charles IV of Spain and his family,
Godoy as Prince of Peace. He also
started several series of aquatinted
etchings: Fantasies and Bullfighting
art. Charles IV and his
family
8. Some portraits he painted of members of the nobility were:
The family of
Family of the Duke of Infant D. Luis
Osasuna
9. The Peninsular War caused a great
impression on Goya. He was a
Francophile, but he refused violence.
He painted the The Third of May of
1808 and The Charge of the
Mamelukes and a series of etchings
called War disasters, a realistic
chronicle of war craziness.
War disasters
The Third of May
11. THE SECOND OF MAY 1808
Author: Francisco de Goya
Chronology: 1814
Commissioners: the government because
Goya sent a letter to the Regent and they
answered him accepting to pay for the
painting. He painted this painting because
he wanted to express because he was a
Francophile and he knew that the things we
will change and because he wanted to
represent the 2nd and the 3rd of May .
Present location: El Prado Museum,
Madrid (Spain)
Material: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 268 cm × 347 cm
Movement: Romanticism
Description: It’s a painting that represents the Meaning: Goya painted this painting
uprising of the 2th of May of 1808, because like he was a Francophile and
after which the Spanish Peninsular War started. On he knew that when the war finished
the painting, the Spanish insurgents are attacking the things would change. He painted this
Mamelukes, Egyptian mercenaries who fought with painting and another one about the 3rd
the French army. This revolt was bloodily suppressed of May.
by the army of occupation.
12. When Ferdinand VII came
back Goya lost his job in the
court and became completely
isolated. He retired to a house
on the banks of the river
Manzanares, called Quinta del
Sordo. On the walls of this
house he painted the Dark
Paintings, where he reflected
mythological themes and Saturn
witches, like for instance devouring
Saturn devouring his son, his son
Fight with Cudgels, The dog or
Two old men eating soup.
The Dog
14. The last paintings he made were
a new series of prints, called
Follies, where he reflected his
outlook on humanity and his fear
of insanity. Finally, he exiled in
Bordeaux (France), where he
painted his last painting: The
Milkmaid of Bordeaux. He died on
the 16th April of 1828 in
Bordeaux (France)
The Milkmaid of
Bordeaux.
15. He was the precursor
of many styles like
Romanticism, Realism,
Impressionism,
Expressionism, war
photography.
He influenced painters
such as Daumier,
Manet, Picasso and
Francis Bacon
Three studies for Peter Bear’s portrait,
Francis Bacon
Rue Transnonain, Honoré Daumier
16. Bibliography
Books:
Social Sciences Book by: Cristina Blanco Carrasco
and Paqui Pérez Fons.
Websites:
Wikipedia 19 April 2012.
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_de_Goya
