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The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters or The Dream of Reason Produces Monsters (Spanish: El sueño de la razón produce monstruos) is an aquatint by the Spanish painter and printmaker Francisco Goya. Created between 1797 and 1799 for the Diario de Madrid, [2][3] it is the 43rd of the 80 aquatints making up the satirical Los caprichos. Subject.
Of the eighty aquatints, number 43, “The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters,” can essentially be seen as Goya’s manifesto and it should be noted that many observers believe he intended it as a self-portrait.
The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (c. 1796 – 1798) is an etching by the Romanticist Francisco Goya. It is number 43 of the series of 80 prints that the artist created titled Los Caprichos (c. 1796 – 1798).
Various animals including bats and owls fly above the sleeping artist, and at the lower right a lynx watches vigilantly alerting us to the rise of monstrous forces that we are able to control when sleep descends.
Francisco Goya, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, c. 1799. A man sleeps, apparently peacefully, even as bats and owls threaten from all sides and a lynx lays quiet, but wide-eyed and alert. A creature sits at the center of the composition, staring not at the sleeping figure, but at us, the viewer. Goya forces the viewer to become an active ...
In Francisco Goya's iconic 1799 etching and aquatint, "The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters," we are presented with a haunting and thought-provoking image. At first glance, the painting depicts a man seated at a desk, his head in his arms, seemingly lost in slumber.
The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters or The Dream of Reason Produces Monsters is an aquatint by the Spanish painter and printmaker Francisco Goya. Created between 1797 and 1799 for the Diario de Madrid, it is the 43rd of the 80 aquatints making up the satirical Los caprichos.