Monday, May 27, 2013

Saturno devorando a su hijo (1819-1823) Francisco Goya


A little bit about Goya:
Goya was a spanish, 18th century, romantic painter, who painted for king charles the 4th.
In 1792, Goya remains entirely deaf, an infirmity, which will cut off Goya from the outside world, and play the role of a catalyst, releasing a scary world of capricious forms and grotesque creatures.

Saturno:
From the Greek myth of the Titan Cronus, who, fearing that he would be overthrown by his children, ate each one upon their birth. Goya painted this black painting directly onto the walls of his house (the Quinta del Sordo (Villa of the Deaf Man)) sometime between 1819 and 1823.

symbolising, nightmares, death and destruction through cannibalistic ferocity, this painting may also allude to the new spanish regime, eating its people.

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