Wednesday 15 June 2011

Francisco de Goya

Goya is a Spanish Artist famed for his PORTRAITS and his gruesome images of the Spanish Civil War

http://www.artelista.com/1053-francisco-de-goya-3979-el-entierro-de-la-sardina.html

image by Poco de Mucho
Goya produced a series of Etchings called 'Disasters of War' which focussed on the depraved acts commited by both sides of the conflict to illustrate the futility of the war and the high level of human suffering inolved:

Francisco Goya - Wonderful Heroism! Against Dead Men! - Disasters of War - Berkeley Art Museum by Marshal Astor


Francisco Goya - Rabble - Disasters of War - Berkeley Art Museum by Marshall Astor


Francisco Goya - For Having a Knife - Disasters of War - Berkeley Art Museum by Marshall Astor


Francisco Goya - This Is Worse - Barbarians! - Berkeley Art Museum By Marshall Astor

 Contemporary Artists Jake and Dinos Chapman bought a set of these etchings and controvercially defaced them in a series of work called 'Insult to Injury'


Explaining Christians to Dinosaurs_13 by Suzanna



Explaining Christians to Dinosaurs_13 by Suzanna

Goya goya goya goya goya!!!!!

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