Caprichos Essays

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In the series of prints, Los Caprichos, there lies a dark, ominous visage of humanity, one in which we see the artist 's future work following the same style.The Sleep of Reason (fig 1). A human sleeps, quite peacefully, as if unintentionally oblivious to the bats and owls and lynx that lay in wait, ready to strike with wide eyes. A singular creature stands out from the rest, as it is staring at the viewer, rather than focusing on the sleeping figure. This forces us to meld with the world presented

Francisco De Goya was born in the year 1726, in Fuendetodos, Spain. He spent part of his childhood in Saragossa, Spain, where he started to study painting at the age of fourteen. He learned by reproducing the paintings of masters like Rembrandt. He then moved to Madrid to work with two brothers, Francisco and Ramón Bayeu y Subías in their studio. He later married their sister, Josefa. In the early 1770s, he went to Rome, Italy to study classical works. In Rome, he entered one of his paintings in

The former, he claimed, was not anti-rational, but rather it balanced the competing claims of rationality and intuition. This view is expressed in the painting- Goya's Sleep of Reason, in which the nightmarish owl offers the dozing scholar of Los Caprichos (derived from the word caprice) a piece of drawing chalk( as we can see below). Even the rational critic is inspired by irrational dream-content under the gaze of the meticulous- eyed lynx. This depicts a queer mix of Reason and the

his painting style to a more “out there” kind of painting style. Goya served as the head painter at the Royal Academy of San Francisco from 1795 to 1797, and then he was chosen to be first Spanish court painter in 1799. In 1799 he published the Caprichos, a series of etchings mocking human stupidity and disadvantages. His portraits were revealing the people in the painting as Goya saw them. In his religious murals he would paint in a style that was not the normal to religious art and was and many