Essays on Goya

How Iconography and Hieratic Scale give us the Message of the Stele of Naram-Sin

The construction of the Victory Stele of Naram-Sin took place in the Sippar’s Sun God Cult in celebration of King Naram-Sin’s triumph over the people of the Lullubi Mountain. The king was the fourth to rule the Semite Dynasty of the Akkadian Empire (stretching from the Inner Iran to Anatolia, and from the Mediterranean to Arabia). As shown in Figure one below, the Stele of Naram-Sin is a representation of this King’s victory (ARTH, 6). The depiction uses iconography and hieratic scale to give a unique view of what took place during the battle. Figure 1: ...

Romanticism. Introduction. As many got tired of regularity and rationality of Classicism, people of art started to try to find a way to express their emotions and attitudes through methods more free from canons. They found such possibility in Romanticism. Romanticism replaces the Age of Enlightenment, and coincided with the industrial revolution, that was marked by the advent of the steam engine, locomotive, ship, photos, and factory suburbs. While education was characterized by the cult of reason, and was based on its principles of civilization, romanticism advocated the cult of nature, senses and all the natural in man. It ...

Francisco De Goya, the great Spanish artist, was born on 30th March 1746 in a place called Fuendetodos, which is located in the province of Saragozza. He moved to Saragozza later with his father who was guilder by profession and studied at a school called “Escuelas Pias de San Anton.” Goya started learning art when he was 13 years old and became an apprentice to a local painter in Saragozza (Felisati and Sperati 264).Initially, Goya copied the work of different artists such as Diego Rodriguez de Silva Velazquez and Rembrandt Van Rijn. He developed a friendship with a ...

The inventive mechanism which complements the imagination and the will is what the Capricho refers to his artworks. They have irrational unsystematic and psychological and most important are not bound to the rules of art. Nonetheless, there is detrimental impulse that produces defective results. Capricho dictates that the defective natures of his arts are a mental form created by illusion. Both the idea and the image are independent as a result of sense perception and intellect. It is the motivating concepts that refer to artistic principles of design. Capricho also stimulates erraticism in his works of art. For instance, ...

Collaboration and Collectivity have become central methods of advancing contemporary art. Artists associations, groups, networks, partnerships, and coalitions are terms often mentioned in light of contemporary art. As such, collaboration and collectivity become generic names used when an artist chooses not to work alone, but to come together and co-work with other artists. The collaboration may also entail an artist cooperating with members of a certain community as they all work to realize the objectives of a given project. The slight difference between cooperation and participation comes in the extent of the controls between the parties involved. The collaboration ...

VISUALIZING DEATH AND ITS POTENTIAL MEANING

VISUALIZING DEATH AND ITS POTENTIAL MEANING

Introduction

It is in ones desire to go skydiving and hope that the parachute pulls, but still questioning its possibilities. It is in ones desire to drive a car much too fast to control but believing one is fully capable of not necessarily cheating death. It is ones desire to drink a large amount of alcohol, knowingly, all at once. It is the death drive, the instinct towards chaos. Primarily it can be said that throughout the entirety of this essay we will explore many different ways in which death has been, and can ...

Introduction

The Ryukyuans are also known as the Lwechewan people. The Ryukyuans are the autochthones who are located in the Ryukyu Islands between the Taiwan and Kyushu Islands. The main subgroups of the Ryukyuans are the Okinawans, Amamians, Miyakoans, Yonagunians and Yaeyamans. The Ryukyuans mainly speak Japanese and dialects Japanese, a number of languages within the Japonic language families and some languages in the Ryukyuan language family. Because of the need to maintain the determined course of discussion, the discourse sticks to the Ryukyuans of Japan. Because of the need to limit this ethnography to the Ryukyuans of Japan, the ...

Introduction

Francisco de Goya was a Spanish romantic painter, to whom the specialists regard as to the last from the Old Masters. Being a court painter to the Spanish Crown, he painted multiple churches, done portraits of monarchs of those times.

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes a Spanish painter and printmaker was born on March 30th 1746 in Fuendetodos - a small village in northern Spain. In the family of Jose Goya, Francisco was the youngest out of three sons. All of Goya brothers managed to get a basic education. In 1763 Goya moved to Madrid, where he tried to enroll the ...

1. Comparing the two sculptures, a lot of similarities appear considering the aspects of classical art. Some of the similarities includes: a. Both are in human form and are used to explain a certain aspect of classical art. b. Both depict people who are believed to have had supernatural aspects and powers (bronze stature depicts a Greek god while the Laocoon depicts of a priest who attempted to destroy a holy sculpture and was subjected to torture by the gods). c. Both communicate a lot about beauty of human body and do not attempt to hide any part of the human body. ...

Francisco Goya’s “Third of May 1808” was one of the very first to show the ugly side of war, instead of rendering it as a glorious enterprise. The right half of the painting consists of a shaded firing squad, with a light pointing at a group of unarmed men, some of whom are already dead and dying, while others are awaiting their own volley of bullets. The lines create directional forces that move out from the boxed lamp, following the light and the hillside to the upper left, and then the shadow line to the lower left, placing the focus squarely ...

Francisco Goya’s “The Dog”, is a painting from the artist’s Dark Period, which marked 14 artworks painted directly on the walls of his country house called Quinta del Sordo, but it can now be seen within Prado Museum, in Madrid (Miller 38). Like the other black paintings, “The Dog” seems to be extracted from a nightmare – like context, an innovative technique that the artist has been using since he turned deaf, as a way of expressing the frustrations of his disability. The examined artwork, with the dog trapped between two surfaces and a blurry shade, produced various interpretations regarding the symbolism ...

The painting was done by Jacques Louis David back in 1974, and later was accredited for having spurred up the French revolution. It depicts a man (Horatius) standing between a group of three men (his sons) and women holding three swords above the heads of the three men. The three men are dressed like soldiers symbolizing authority. The man in the middle with the three swords is having his back facing the women which symbolizes that women are not important in the struggle to unchain the society from the manacles of a war threat. The women let their emotions show while the ...

Neo-classical is a form of art that was dominant in Europe in the 18th Century. This art form was founded on the desire to re-create the spirit and forms of art from ancient Greece and Roman antiquity. The main characteristic of neo-classicism was Herculaneum. Artists in the neo-classical era ensured that their work had moral and aesthetic implications. Romanticism was the form of art that followed after the neo-classical era, this form of art was different as it was more complex than other art forms that came before it. Artistic freedom was the main feature of Romanticism and emphasis was ...

Essay Question #1 chp 12: 15 pointsFirst describe in detail Arneson’s Jackson Pollock. Next, discuss how Robert Arneson's Jackson Pollock blurs the line between craft and fine art. How does the glaze relate to the subject? Arenson’s Jackson Pollock uses a technique that was developed in ceramics and pottery. It is a ceramic bust of Jackson Pollocks’s face with a piercing expression of uncertainty. It is deformed by glazed abstract streaks. Glaze was originally a practical technique, but Arenson has used it artistically. The glaze used in the piece affects the substance and sensibility of the piece. They ...

Goya's Ghosts (2006) Goya's Ghosts (2006) The film, Goya’s Ghosts (2006), is a seminal work in the history of cinema. The director, Miloš Forman, creates an ever-lasting impression on the minds of the audience with his quintessential depiction of the life and works of the eminent artist. The central thrust of the film is the issue of state-sponsored usage of torture that was prevalent in Spain in 1792. Forman and Jean-Claude Carrière, the co-writer of the film, have depicted the character of the protagonist as an inspired artist who endeavors to balance between earning his ...

Caravaggio’s Innovations in the Art World.

Caravaggio’s works have long influenced many different arts. His naturalist ideas clearly served to move away from former art movements. Caravaggio worked to avoid idealization and thus make subjects more relatable. Most of his subjects looked like everyday people that anyone could relate to. Caravaggio often achieved this through the use of strong lighting and high contrast. Caravaggio usual focused on telling stories through his art. One article describes his style as, “Although chiaroscuro was used long before Caravaggio came onto the art scene it was he who defined the technique and darkened the shadows. The artist's observation of ...

Caravaggio’s influence has been felt within many different pieces of art. Caravaggio implemented the idea that idealized beauty was not essential to making interesting or popular art. Caravaggio moved away from traditional styles, making even religious subjects look like common people. Dramatic lighting and high contrast were also important aspects of his art work. Caravaggio’s use of naturalism created a new movement away from idealized beauty. Caravaggio’s style typically had less complicated iconography and a more straight forward naturalistic approach to telling stories. Caravaggio certainly took a different approach to the painting of religious scenes when be painted “ ...

Joanne Garconnet

Abstract The aim of this paper is to see how paintings techniques and world description changed through styles concentrating on a single theme of female body. The three chosen works for analysis are Jacques-Louis David's Madame Recamier (1800) for Neoclassicism, Goya's The Nude Maya (1800) as an example of Romanticism, and Renoir's Young Girl Combing Her Hair (1894) for Impressionism. Key words: Impressionism, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, female body, paintings. Jacques-Louis David's Madame Recamier (1800) Francisco Goya's The Nude Maya (1800) Renoir's Young Girl Combing Her Hair (1894) Looking on the background of all studied materials, ...

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to see how paintings techniques and world description changed through epochs concentrating on a single theme of female body. the three chosen works for analysis are Caravaggio's Death of the Virgin (1604-1606) for Baroque, Jacques-Louis David's Madame Recamier (1800) for Neoclassicism as part of the Enlightenment and Francisco Goya's The Nude Maya (1800) as an example of Romanticism. Key words: Baroque, Enlightenment, Romanticism, female body, paintings, light.

Caravaggio's Death of the Virgin (1604-1606)

Jacques-Louis David's Madame Recamier (1800) Francisco Goya's The Nude Maya (1800) Looking on the background of all studied materials, the three chosen works for ...

Emotionalism

Introduction The emotionalist school of ethics providing the foundations to Romanticism in Art, as well as the promise of democracy in the French Revolution emerged in response to the English empiricism of Social Contract Philosophers, Thomas Hobbes and John Locke. Ideas of sympathy developed by the British school of moral philosophy propose an ethics of feelings, including the emotional transformation of rationalism’s limits in art, culture, politics and religion. Such conceptions of human nature are found in the intellectual discourse of nineteenth century Victorian critic of art and society, John Ruskin. Ruskin summates early Modern notions ...

Francisco De Goya y Lucientes was one of the greatest Spanish painters of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He worked on many royal commissions and married a daughter of a Spanish court artist. Goya became deaf in 1792. Thereafter, his art changed from the rococo style of lighthearted works to pessimistic, experimenting scenes. This shift in style can be seen from comparing two of his paintings before and after 1972. In 1786, he worked on a painting called Summer, also known as The Threshing Floor or Harvesting, as part of his The Four Seasons series. It was oil on ...

Romanticism and Realism are both highly influential art periods, however, they depict their subject matter in vastly different ways. Political, social, and ecological understanding changed how society viewed art. Romanticism and Realism had different objectives. Romanticism to produce emotion and Realism to document reality by looking at these periods in depth one can gain a better understanding of the importance of these periods on the world of art.

Early Romanticism

Romanticism is usually considered a spinoff of Neo-classicism. The Romantic period begins with the turn of the 19th century, from those who did not find inspiration of the seriousness of Neo-classicism and its ...

1. Paraphrase the poem: "Lines composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey." Despite that these forms of beauty are not easily seen, they are unseen to me. The situation is just like that of a blind man, who cannot explain the appearance of a landscape. I am owed to them to them like a man in solitary in a quite room does to the middle of a busy city. I have owed to their familiarization for knowledge in my pure mind.

The goodness of a man is owed to pleasure and good acts. This quality is worth trustfulness irrespective of the burden of mystery which ...

Goya’s aquatint No. 43, “El sueño de la razón produce monstrous” (El sueño) or “The Sleep of Reason produces monsters,” has been subject to many complex interpretations. As part of eighty fantastical and bizarre aquatints of his 1799 collection, “Los Caprichos,” El sueño dramatically illustrates a conglomeration of symbols. This work appears to represent Goya’s dream of an enlightened Spain. The allegorical significance of so-called monsters ominously hovering over a dreamer is, in some ways, ambiguous. Some interpreters have claimed that the print represents evil in the guise of ominous bats. Others emphasize the ...

Romanticism, also known as the romantic era, was an intellectual movement, complex in artistry and literature, which emerged in the mid 18th century, and drew much of its strength from its strong reactions against the Industrial Revolution. This era originated and spread from Europe. The reasons for the establishment of this movement were many. One of the reasons for the development of romanticism was to revolt or demonstrate against the norms and the characteristics that came with the Age of Enlightenment. These characteristics were in line with the emerging aristocratic political and social issues.

The movement was also against the ...