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You can't: Etching and aquatint 21.3 x 15.2 The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters: Etching and aquatint 21.3 x 15.1 They spin finely: Etching, aquatint, drypoint and engraving 21.5 x 15.1 There is plenty to suck: Etching and aquatint 20.4 x 14.9 Correction: Etching and aquatint 21.3 x 14.8 A gift for the master: Etching, aquatint and engraving ...
Los Caprichos lack an organized and coherent structure, but they have important thematic nuclei. The most prevalent themes are: the superstition around witches, which predominates after Capricho No. 43 and that serves to express ideas about evil in a tragicomic way; the life and behavior of friars; erotic satire relating to prostitution and the role of the matchmaker; and to a lesser extent ...
The first floor displays 22 prints from Los disparates series, 40 prints from La Tauromaquia and 82 prints from The Disasters of War, while the second floor displays 80 engravings from Los caprichos. The collection was created thanks to several donations of works from renowned artists bought after they were auctioned.
He speculates that Goya's son Javier may have created the paintings, and Javier's son Mariano passed them off as the work of Goya for financial gain. Junquera's theory was rejected by Goya scholar Nigel Glendinning , who published an academic study defending the paintings' authenticity and later held a lecture in Madrid restating his conviction.
In this painting Goya depicts himself in a bullfighter's suit. La Tauromaquia (Bullfighting) is a series of 33 prints created by the Spanish painter and printmaker Francisco Goya, which was published in 1816. The works of the series depict bullfighting scenes. There are also seven extra prints that were not published in the original edition.
However, in Goya's artist's proofs, many of the prints contain titles including "Disparates", by which the series is most commonly known today. [ 4 ] The academic edition of 1864 used a random sequence, as there was no way to establish the intended ordering of the series. [ 5 ]
Goya's usage of the recently-developed technique of aquatint (i.e., a method of etching a printing plate so that tones similar to watercolor washes can be reproduced [4]) gave Los Caprichos pronounced tonal effects and spirited contrast that made them a major achievement in the history of engraving.
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