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Goya - Between Two Worlds (Paperback)
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Goya - Between Two Worlds (Paperback)
Series: CV/Visual Arts Research, 208
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Goya - the Witches and Old Women Album', now on view at the
Courtauld Gallery in London, is fascinating for many reasons. It is
a brilliant example of painstaking detective work. The long
separated drawings of this album, which dates from 1819-23, have
been brought together in their original sequence. Only one sheet,
out of 23, now appears to be missing. It also represents a bridge
between once traditional ideas about art and those we have now.
Some of its roots are in the long-established tradition of personal
caricature, and the related tradition of grotesque genre portraits
of the poor and disadvantaged. Remote, but still present, are
echoes of the little grotesque figures made in Hellenistic
Alexandria. One can also see traces of influence from 17th century
and later caricature drawings - those made, for example, by
Guercino and Pier Francesco Mola. Even more strongly visible are
what Goya owed to the drawings made by Giandomenico Tiepolo - the
Punchinello series in particular.Giandomenico lived and worked in
Spain from 1762-70, as assistant to his father, G.B. Tiepolo.What
is highly original is the fact that these drawings, often extremely
ambiguous in meaning, form a meditative sequence, not apparently
intended for public consumption, but entirely self-reflexive. They
record the artist's dreams and fantasies, but strictly for his own
contemplation. As such they represent a major psychological
breakthrough, a next step forward from the late self-portraits of
Rembrandt. Their successors are the images created by major
Surrealist artists such as Salvador Dali and Max Ernst. The
exhibition enables us to see our contemporary ideas about the
nature of the self at the very moment of their first formation.
These are the issues Edward Lucie-Smith will discuss in his text
about this pioneering show, which not only reconstructs Goya's
long-dispersed album, but places it in the context of other
drawings and prints by the same great artist.
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