Word: goya
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Buffalo's coup (see above) was matched by an important art buy in another U.S. city. For 15 years, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts has been hunting for a first-class Goya. Last week the master's Self Portrait with Doctor Arrieta was hanging in the museum's place of honor (Minneapolis' prized Rembrandt, Lucretia, had been moved aside to make room for it). Goya painted the Self Portrait in 1820 at the peak of his genius, as a tribute to a man he firmly believed saved his life. In 1819 Goya was 73 years...
...muted greens, reds and violets, Goya shows himself in bed, head back, limp hands feebly clutching the bed sheets. His eyes are puffy, his thin, greying hair mussed and damp with fever. Behind him sits the calm doctor, supporting his patient with a strong left arm, gently urging him to drink a tumbler of medicine. There are three figures in Goya's darkened background: a priest, a woman (possibly Goya's cousin and housekeeper, Leocadia Weiss), and a mysterious, gaping head which may be Goya's symbol for death...
...June 13, 1949), he loads his canvas with writhing roots, needle-sharp thorns, blasted trees and immense grasshoppers. There is nothing passively pastoral about Sutherland's nature: his leggy insects and pitiful vegetables are all raw, anguished forms with some of the same kind of supernatural ferocity that Goya got into his bleeding bulls and brutish, Napoleonic troopers...
FRANCISCO JOSÉ DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES was one of the most dramatic of the old masters, and one of the most unpredictable. An artisan's son who lived during the bloody days of the Napoleonic invasion of Spain, he grew up to be a darling of the court, though he often painted his benefactors to look like vain simpletons. When Napoleon conquered Spain Goya first curried favor with the victors, then commemorated their outrages with a series of compassionate etchings. Last week an exhibition of 81 of the master's works was on display in Richmond...
Visitors to last week's show got a good idea of Goya's enormous scope and variety. Though his works always had an underpinning of fiercely honest realism, they ranged from elegant portraiture, through caricature, to expressionist outpourings of violent emotion and surrealist fantasies. Goya's Majo is a mysterious dandy painted in a style of courtly elegance. His expressionist St. Peter Repentant, roughly and swiftly constructed of broad brushstrokes, is a rocklike old man in an agony of remorse after thrice betraying Christ. In his besieged City on a Rock, the master turns surrealist and dreamlike...