Imagination

Question 1

Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (1799):

What is its main idea?

Answer 1

When you ignore imagination in favour of pure reason, things go bad

Question 2

Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (1799):

How is the dream like atmosphere conveyed

Answer 2

Aquatint technique and its grainy texture

Question 3

Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (1799):

How are connotations to the supernatural shown?

Answer 3

Use of supernatural animals, especially the lynx which can ‘look through deceit’

Question 4

Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (1799):

How is the idea of the work expressed thoroughly?

Answer 4

The name on the bottom left

Question 5

Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (1799):

How is the idea of this ‘lack of imagination’ indicated as a flaw of mankind?

Answer 5

This work is a part of a series; ‘The Follies of Man’

Question 6

Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (1799):

Rejection of the Age of Enlightenment is seen with?

Answer 6

The man is seen falling asleep to reason

Question 7

Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (1799):

Give me a quote;

Answer 7

“When abandoned by reason, Imagination produces impossible monsters;… she is the mother of the arts and source of their wonders.” - Francisco Goya

Question 8

Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (1799):

What does the aquatint and its grainy texture do?

Answer 8

A dream-like (i.e. irrational) atmosphere

Question 9

Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (1799):

What does the use of supernatural animals do?

Answer 9

Connotations of the supernatural

Question 10

Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (1799):

What does the name on the bottom left do?

Answer 10

Conveys the idea of the print much more clearer

Question 11

Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (1799):

What does the fact that this is part of the ‘Follies of Man’ series do?

Answer 11

Shows the idea of this ‘lack of imagination’ is as a folly of mankind

Question 12

Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (1799):

“When abandoned by reason, Imagination produces impossible monsters;…

Answer 12

… she is the mother of the arts and source of their wonders.” - Francisco Goya

Question 13

Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (1799):

Aspects of the subjective frame include?

Answer 13

• Irrational animals (lynx sees through deceit)
• Dreamlike atmosphere, the middle of a nightmare
• Dark tones and grainy texture creates fear and mystery

Question 14

The Third of May 1808 (1814):

What is its main idea?

Answer 14

War is terrible and horrid

Question 15

The Third of May 1808 (1814):

How is a sense of drama and horror manifested?

Answer 15

Colour choice of dark black night and deep crimson red blood which signify mystery

Question 16

The Third of May 1808 (1814):

How is the innocence and virtue of the Spanish people revealed?

Answer 16

Christian iconography of the central figure with his crucifix pose and white shirt

Question 17

The Third of May 1808 (1814):

What aspects removes the humanity of the war mongers?

Answer 17

French soldiers are turned away hiding the most expressive part of the body from the audience

Question 18

The Third of May 1808 (1814):

How is a sense of danger and violence exhibited?

Answer 18

Rough texture and the unrefined brushstrokes with a contrast of dark and light

Question 19

The Third of May 1808 (1814):

In what ways are the atrocities and brutality of war displayed?

Answer 19

The incredibly fearful expressions on the faces of the Spanish victims

Question 20

The Third of May 1808 (1814):

Give me a quote;

Answer 20

“It is unlike all previous war paintings. No glory; only pity and loss, and the defiant humanity of the victims.” - Critic Robert Hughes

Question 21

The Third of May 1808 (1814):

What does the colour choice of dark black night and deep crimson red blood (which signify mystery) do?

Answer 21

Sense of drama and horror as a result of war

Question 22

The Third of May 1808 (1814):

What does the Christian iconography of the central figure with his crucifix pose and white shirt do?

Answer 22

It shows the innocence and virtue of the Spanish people

Question 23

The Third of May 1808 (1814):

With the soldiers turned away hiding the most expressive part of the body from the audience, what does this achieve?

Answer 23

It removes the humanity of the war mongers i.e. the French

Question 24

The Third of May 1808 (1814):

What does the rough texture and the unrefined brushstrokes with a contrast of dark and light do?

Answer 24

How is a sense of danger and violence exhibited

Question 25

The Third of May 1808 (1814):

The incredibly fearful expressions on the faces of the Spanish victims

Answer 25

In what ways are the atrocities and brutality of war displayed?

Question 26

The Third of May 1808 (1814):

“It is unlike all previous war paintings. No glory;…

Answer 26

…only pity and loss, and the defiant humanity of the victims.” - Critic Robert Hughes

Question 27

The Third of May 1808 (1814):

Aspects of the subjective frame include?

Answer 27

• Highly emotional, deep sense drama
• Based on Goya’s own life, NOT REAL dramatisation that captures the feelings of the Spanish
• Rough brushstrokes has a sense of danger and violence
• Aspects of romanticism, a rejection of pure reason and logic in favour of emotions and respect of nature