Goya. Caprichos

UNTIL SUNDAY 4/6
BB.AA MUSEUM. Saint Pius V, 9

The Museum of Fine Arts of Valencia received last year the donation of eighty waterfuertes of the series Caprichos of Goya and at the time only a selection was exposed. In Goya. Caprichos You can see the full collection, accompanied by canvases of the Aragonese painter and some of his followers, as well as the bronze bust with which Mariano Benlliure portrayed him, the one who lifts up, converted, The winners of the awards that the Film Academy awarded annually. Francisco de Goya was one of the outstanding figures of the transition from neoclassicism to romantic movement. He won fame as a portrait even though he never tried to flatter his distinguished models and In private he worked other issues in which he gave free rein to the imagination and developed his critical vision, grotesque and dark of reality that surrounded him. For example in this, His first large series of engravings, in whose most famous stamp, The dream of reason produces monsters, he appears harassed by nightmare visions while sleeping. Spain reflected 1800 in which the delay, Superstition, The Inquisition (The convicted persons with a capirote and Sanbenito are repeated), Superchery and inculture camping at ease. In the stamp What a tailor can! For example, Cover the trunk of a tree with clerical clothing that refer to a preacher to openly criticize the trend of the Church to fill its temples of images that incite superstition and decline of education. S.M.

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