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The spanish artist Francisco de Goya (1746-1828) has a consuming hold on the imagination of Robert Hughes, the world’s foremost commentator on art and arguably the most compelling presenter around. A few years ago, as Hughes lay in a coma following a near fatal road accident, a series of powerful hallucinations plunged him into the nightmare world of Goya’s Black Paintings. Nobody knows what drove Goya to paint these dark phantoms of his mind on the walls of a farmhouse where he lived after he left Madrid, too deaf and alienated to continue life as a court painter. When Hughes recovered, he made this documentary.
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Hughes explores the world of Goya and gives a very personal commentary on his paintings, charting his achievements as a court painter, satirist and war reporter and finally as the topographer of the inner self, of madness, fear and despair. He gives an insight into the huge changes that took place in Goya’s work in the course of his life: the shift from light to dark. In Spain, he travels to Goya’s native Aragon and, in Madrid, he is seen visiting the galleries, palaces and churches where Goya’s works are
on display. The painter’s unforgettable images dominate the screen, many viewed in the superb, close-up detail that can only be afforded by the camera. Footage of the Prado’s 2002 exhibition of Goya’s paintings of women shows the enormous range of his depiction of the opposite sex. Specially-shot film of a bullfight in the ring at Rhonda is juxtaposed with etchings from the Tauromaquia series. Something of the painter’s milieu is alive today in this ancient spectacle. In New York, Hughes calls on the American painter Leon Golub, who shares his fascination for Goya, and elicits a contemporary artist’s perspective on the Spanish master’s work.
Some of his most famous paintings are "The Nude Maja", "The Clothed Maja", "Charles IV of Spain and His Family", "The Third of May", "The Parasol", "The Dog", "The Disasters of War Series", "The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters", "Saturn Devouring His Son" and "Witches' Sabbath (The Great He-Goat)".
Original title: GOYA - Crazy Like A Genius
Produced by Oxford Film & Television
Directed by Ian MacMillan
2007 © Licensed by DCD
The spanish artist Francisco de Goya (1746-1828) has a consuming hold on the imagination of Robert Hughes, the world’s foremost commentator on art and arguably the most compelling presenter around. A few years ago, as Hughes lay in a coma following a near fatal road accident, a series of powerful hallucinations plunged him into the nightmare world of Goya’s Black Paintings. Nobody knows what drove Goya to paint these dark phantoms of his mind on the walls of a farmhouse where he lived after he left Madrid, too deaf and alienated to continue life as a court painter. When Hughes recovered, he made this documentary.
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Subscribe to wocomoCULTURE: goo.gl/VITuUt
Follow us on Facebook: facebook.com/wocomo
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Hughes explores the world of Goya and gives a very personal commentary on his paintings, charting his achievements as a court painter, satirist and war reporter and finally as the topographer of the inner self, of madness, fear and despair. He gives an insight into the huge changes that took place in Goya’s work in the course of his life: the shift from light to dark. In Spain, he travels to Goya’s native Aragon and, in Madrid, he is seen visiting the galleries, palaces and churches where Goya’s works are
on display. The painter’s unforgettable images dominate the screen, many viewed in the superb, close-up detail that can only be afforded by the camera. Footage of the Prado’s 2002 exhibition of Goya’s paintings of women shows the enormous range of his depiction of the opposite sex. Specially-shot film of a bullfight in the ring at Rhonda is juxtaposed with etchings from the Tauromaquia series. Something of the painter’s milieu is alive today in this ancient spectacle. In New York, Hughes calls on the American painter Leon Golub, who shares his fascination for Goya, and elicits a contemporary artist’s perspective on the Spanish master’s work.
Some of his most famous paintings are "The Nude Maja", "The Clothed Maja", "Charles IV of Spain and His Family", "The Third of May", "The Parasol", "The Dog", "The Disasters of War Series", "The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters", "Saturn Devouring His Son" and "Witches' Sabbath (The Great He-Goat)".
Original title: GOYA - Crazy Like A Genius
Produced by Oxford Film & Television
Directed by Ian MacMillan
2007 © Licensed by DCD
