The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya [ANALYSIS] The most revolutionary work in history скачать в хорошем качестве

The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya [ANALYSIS] The most revolutionary work in history

Art and the Cities is my personal blog and Youtube channel of art and travel. I'm not just talking about art history but also about travel, museums, galleries, art market, love stories, books, exhibitions and much more. »Blog: https://artandthecities.com/ »Instagram:   / artnthecities   See you soon, Clelia --- 00:00 Intro 01:08 Goya 01:42 Theme 02:07 The Second of May 1808 02:46 Analysis The Third of May 1808 04:31 Neoclassicism vs Romanticism 06:29 Details The Third of May 1808 10:36 Dimensions The Third of May 1808 --- Who is the artist of The Third of May 1808? Francisco Goya was born in Spain. He is the son of a florist from Zaragoza and becomes an apprentice at the age of 14. So he moved to Madrid. Here he designs cartoons for royal tapestries and begins to earn a living as a portrait painter, becoming a painter at the court in 1789. Not only a painter but also an engraver and one of the leading figures of the romantic movement. Create portraits for the aristocracy and extraordinary engravings. In 1814, when he had been deaf for some years due to an illness, he received a commission for two works. He must tell of the Spanish insurrection against the French that took place six years earlier, in 1808. The funds to paint come directly from the King of Spain Ferdinand VII. The Second of May 1808 Analysis The first painting takes its title from the first day of insurrections and shows a crowd in the Puerta del Sol area of Madrid. The crowd attacks the Mamelukes, the Turkish cavalry in Napoleon's French Imperial Guard. The news that younger members of the royal family are brought to France pushes people into the streets and Goya's painting shows scenes from the chaos that just broke out. The Third of May 1808 Analysis The following day the French army rallies and kills the rebels as in the work we are talking about today. May 3, 1808. And Goya in his masterpiece kept at the Prado tells us about the cruel fate of this group of civilians. The work shows a brutal execution on a hill, in a bare countryside outside the city. The city is dark and in the background. It looks almost spooky. And its buildings look like fortresses that rise in the night sky. Intense black, starless or moonlit, fills almost a third of the composition and intensifies the nightmarish feeling of the scene. In the foreground on the left, a defenseless man kneels before soldiers who threaten him with their rifles. His shirt is white and bright and reflects the only light of the scene. That of the lantern on the ground. Man has his arms open in the symbolic pose of Christ crucified. A powerful and tragic gesture. And face this wall of men against him alone with uniforms and guns. The composition of Goya's work increases the sense of terror. Ordered diagonally to the right, the soldiers form an impenetrable barrier. In front of them, there is the heroic central figure and his compatriots who are on their knees. And a long line of condemned men who will be executed shortly thereafter. Goya's colors are soft and dark, very warm. There are spots of shadows and the details are not precise. The focus is on the man in the white shirt and what is going to happen to him. The focal point of the painting is the kneeling man who is about to be hit, holding out his arms in a pose reminiscent of the crucifixion of Christ. The sky is pitch dark, so the only source of light in the painting is the huge lantern on the ground in front of the soldiers. On the left, among the rebels who are about to be executed, there is also a monk. In the foreground on the left are two men who have just been hit, one looks naked. French soldiers are all deployed in the same position. And they are so close that they merged into a group and each lost their individual identity. The city and the bell tower can be seen in the background and emerge against the black night sky. The condemned who gather behind the central figure seem terrified. On the right an incredibly long line of convicts. There are so many that almost reach the city up the hill. Difference between Romanticism and Neoclassicism? In this period there are two major movements of art. On the one hand there is the construction of the work across the line for Neoclassicism with artists like David. And on the other, the extreme use of color for Romanticism with Delacroix. And Goya is a Romantic. The main theme of the works of this period are emotions. Romantic artists move away from the concepts of logical and rational, and express the feelings that were previously left aside. Movement, color and drama become the center of their works. And theirs is a universe of extreme emotions horror and violence.