BEN WESTLEY CLARKE ON FRANCISCO GOYA
May 5, 2020
Francisco Goya: 'Good Priest' ‘In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing About the dark times.’ – Bertolt Brecht, motto to Svendborg Poems, 1939 ‘Art is a lie that makes us realise truth.’ - Pablo Picasso, 1923 FRANCISCO GOYA, ’MEETING ON THE WALK’ 1795-96, PRADO MUSEUM Goya’s work comes out of an era in which it is relatively easy to see how important etiquette, manners and shallow moralism were – it was constantly necessary to maintain a veneer of social normality and dignity;...
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