Born in 1746, in Spain, Goya was a romanticism painter. He painted for the Spanish crown, and many of his works documented events that happened while he was alive. During his later years, he succumbed to deafness which resulted in his mental stability to come into question. His earlier years consisted of art that was done of the Royal Family, the court, typically more light-hearted scenes, occassionally dark. However after he became deaf, his artwork became drastically dark and disturbing. Some of which he painted on the walls of his dining room and the rest of his home, these were known as the "Black Paintings."The painting pictured here, "The Third of May, 1808," is probably one of his most famous pieces. This is not one of his black paintings, instead it is a painting depicting a tragedy that happened between Spanish civilians and French militants. The Spanish civilians were slaughtered by the French, Napoleon's army, and this is similar to a newspaper report on the event, just more emotional and heartbreaking. You can see the terror in the man's eyes with his arms up in the air, as he knows he is about to die in a flurry of bullets. The dark of the night and the illumination of the lamps brings your eyes towards the hopeless men who are about to die, and the blood already spilt of the ones who fell before them. This is a truely inspiring piece, because the emotion is so intense, it inspires me to create something so incredibly emotional, or at least a fraction of what this has accomplished.
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