Goya notes

Question 1

artwork and date:

Answer 1

third of may, 1808

Question 2

practice:

Answer 2

18th century Francisco Goya; Spanish painter
court painter–> deaf, isolation made works more satirical, dark, bold, nightmarish quality, flat colours/light “artist vision more important than tradition” –> rebel

etching, drawing, painting, used oil on canvas, Romantic modernist

Question 3

structural frame:

Answer 3

white figure, arms outstretched with line of soldiers pointing guns, dead people, at night, church in background, violence

Question 4

cultural frame:

Answer 4

massacre after French Napoleonic invasion, Spaniards rebel –> killed

commemorate uprisings and victims

Question 5

subjective:

Answer 5

anonymous soldiers, empathetic with rebels, actions louder than words, victims of war/not hero, jesus on cross

Question 6

postmodern:

Answer 6

18th century depictions of death/battle –> no emotion, Romantics want to be beautiful canvas

Goya neither, depict “anti-hero”contrasting and putting in positive light, emotion evident, true pathos –> not since ancient roman “dying Gaul” realistic/confronting