Word: tauromaquia
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...these etchings that the Museum's show explores. Four series of his prints comprise most of the show: Tauromaquia (The Art of Bullfighting), and Disparates (Follies--published after Goya's death in 1828), the Caprichos and the Desastres de la Guerra. These last two, especially, complement each other, echoing Goya's experiences in Spanish society, his understanding of the irrational forces that make reason so difficult to express, and his conviction that reason is the only answer to these forces...
Picasso's diverse genius makes itself felt in a variety of styles and techniques. His Tauromaquia is remarkable for the economy of line of its aquatinis. Bulls drawn with two or three artful flourishes seem as real as if they had been constructed in full detail. Miro and Matisse provide wonderful color illustrations that give pleasure, although they have very little to do with any accompanying text...
...Tauromaquia continues the theme of war and the dark figure of the bull dominates these drawings. In two of the works Goya describes how man has fought this dark creature from time immemorial. In another, he shows that when the bull gets loose he massacres people in the stands. This oldest of Spanish sports, while artistically compelling, was more than a technical exercise for Goya; it contained rampant symbolism...
...first commercial edition of the 33 etchings of the Tauromaquia (Goya himself printed only a few copies in 1815) did not come out until 1855. A second edition was printed in 1876. Limited to 400 copies, it sold like wildfire, but a repeat printing was impossible because the plates were lost. They were found again in 1915, and a third and a fourth edition were printed. Finally, the plates disappeared once more during the Spanish Civil War, and it was feared that they had been destroyed in the fighting. In the last few years, the price...
...cleaning out the club's storerooms, found the plates again, hidden among bags of coal, pieces of broken furniture and ruined statuary in the basement. Last week the plates were cleaned and readied once more for the presses. The Circulo will put out a fifth edition of the Tauromaquia, limited to 500 copies, to sell...