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With Goya, the ties between art and beauty were broken. The Spanish artist didn’t paint the beautiful, but the human, with its dramas and nightmares, its dreams and passions. This break, which he instigated, makes of him the first modern painter. He converses with Velazquez and calls Picasso by his first name. He’s Baudelaire’s brother, observing the Spanish wars with the premonition of the genocides that would take place in the 20th century. Struck with deafness, he is all the more sensitive to the sound and fury of the world.
It is the stupefying modernity of Goya’s painting that C.-H. Rocquet explores in this biography, which aims descend into the darkest depths of the artist who painted The Caprices, Tres de Mayo, and the walls of his own house, La Quinta del Sordo (The House of the Deaf Man).

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  • Buchet/Chastel
  • Essais-Documents
  • Publication date : 03/04/2008
  • Size : 15 x 23 cm, 528 p., 29,40 EUR €
  • ISBN 978-2-283-02061-6
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