With Apologies to Francisco Goya
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- Daily Kos, Jan. 7, 2022.
* (See Image in the Link) In his original inauguration speech, I’m pretty sure Trump did not realize what “American carnage” really meant. Based on the recent House Hostage Speaker election, he certainly did not stop it.-- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/1/7/2146016/-With-apologies-to-Francisco-Goya
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- Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (30 March 1746–16 April 1828) was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker. He is considered the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. His paintings, drawings, and engravings reflected contemporary historical upheavals & influenced important 19th- & 20th-century painters.
Goya is often referred to as the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns..
.. - Quinta del Sordo & Black Paintings (1819–1822) * Saturn Devouring His Son, 1819–1823.*
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* 'Saturn Devouring His Son' by Goya. It is traditionally interpreted as a depiction of the Greek myth of the Titan Cronus (Saturn in Roman mythology) eating one of his offspring. Fearing a prophecy foretold by Gaea that predicted he would be overthrown by one of his children, Saturn ate each one upon their birth. This interpretation of the painting sees it as a reference to the Roman myth (inspired by the original Greek myth), in which Terra (Gaea) foretold that one of the sons of Saturn would overthrow him, just as he had overthrown his father, Caelus (Uranus).
To prevent this, Saturn ate his children moments after each was born, eating the gods Vesta (Hestia), Ceres (Demeter), Juno (Hera), Pluto (Hades), & Neptune (Poseidon). His wife Ops (Rhea) eventually hid his 6th child and 3rd son, Jupiter (Zeus), on the island of Crete, deceiving Saturn by offering a stone wrapped in swaddling in his place. Unlike the painting, the myths usually portray Saturn/Kronos swallowing his children, and later vomiting them up alive after swallowing the stone, rather than violently tearing them apart as in the painting.[citation needed] Jupiter eventually supplanted his father just as the prophecy had predicted...https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_Devouring_His_Son
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Records of Goya's later life are relatively scant, & ever politically aware, he suppressed a number of his works from this period, working instead in private. He was tormented by a dread of old age & fear of madness. Goya had been a successful & royally placed artist, but withdrew from public life during his final years. From the late 1810s he lived in near-solitude outside Madrid in a farmhouse converted into a studio. The house had become known as "La Quinta del Sordo" (The House of the Deaf Man), after the nearest farmhouse that had coincidentally also belonged to a deaf man.
Art historians assume Goya felt alienated from the social & political trends that followed the 1814 restoration of the Bourbon monarchy, & that he viewed these developments as reactionary means of social control. In his unpublished art he seems to have railed against what he saw as a tactical retreat into Medievalism. It is thought that he had hoped for political & religious reform, but like many liberals became disillusioned when the restored Bourbon monarchy & Catholic hierarchy rejected the Spanish Constitution of 1812.
At the age of 75, alone and in mental & physical despair, he completed the work of his 14 Black Paintings, all of which were executed in oil directly onto the plaster walls of his house. Goya did not intend for the paintings to be exhibited, did not write of them, and likely never spoke of them. Around 1874, 50 years after his death, they were taken down & transferred to a canvas support by owner Baron Frédéric Émile d'Erlanger. Many of the works were significantly altered during the restoration...https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Goya
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