Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Black Paintings (Spanish: Pinturas negras) is the name given to a group of 14 paintings by Francisco Goya from the later years of his life, likely between 1819 and 1823. They portray intense, haunting themes, reflective of both his fear of insanity and his bleak outlook on humanity.
Francisco Goya’s Black Paintings from around 1819 to 1823 were among some of this Spanish artist’s darkest paintings. In the brief contextual analysis below, we will discuss when and where Goya painted these, what they are, and what the conditions of his life were like when he painted them.
The Black Paintings were a series of dark, pessimistic subjects that an elderly Goya painted on the interior walls of his private home, never meant to be shown to the public. What happened in Goya’s life that caused him to create such horrific scenes in the comfort of his own home?
By exploring Goya’s evolution from a highly ambitious commercial painter in the Spanish Court to a hermit painting, the solemn series of Black Paintings on the walls of his home, you will understand how his work and thoughts on human nature changed art forever.
Goya y Lucientes, Francisco de. The mural paintings that decorated the house known as “la Quinta del Sordo,” where Goya lived have come to be known as the Black Paintings, because he used so many dark pigments and blacks in them, and also because of their somber subject matter.
A Pilgrimage to San Isidro (Spanish: La romería de San Isidro) is one of the Black Paintings painted by Francisco de Goya between 1819–23 on the interior walls of the house known as Quinta del Sordo ("The House of the Deaf Man") that he purchased in 1819.
Today referred to as the Black Paintings, they are compelling in their sinister and often horrifying scenes with dark, emotional undertones. Dissatisfied with political developments in Spain, Goya retired to Bordeaux in 1824 under the guise of seeking medical advice.
by Francisco de GOYA Y LUCIENTES. The 14 'Black Paintings' paintings (now in the Museo del Prado), so called because of the dark tones and predominance of black, originally decorated the Quinta del Sordo (House of the Deaf Man).
Created between 1819 and 1823, a time of political turmoil and social unrest in Spain, “The Black Paintings” stand as a testament to Goya’s deep-seated fears, anxieties, and disillusionment.
Applying his paints directly to the plastered walls of his home, Francisco de Goya spent the years between 1820 and 1823 creating what is now called his “Black Paintings,” a series of fourteen dark, psychological, and macabre pieces of art, often involving grotesque facial expressions and eerie atmospheres.