Goya and his Paintings

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This paper examines the life and works of 18th century painter, Goya. It explains that in his youth, Goya was apprenticed by Francisco Bayeu and also motivated by the styles of Rembrandt and Velazquez as their techniques are present in Goya's work. The paper examines some of Goya's works and discusses how these styles are representative in his paintings.

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"Despite his success as a painter, Goya's life and style were changed after an infirmity in 1793 left Goya deaf, imbibing him with new cynicism and bitterness. As a result, his post-infirmity paintings wee executed with painful honesty, eventually turning to tragedy and bizarre horrors. Throughout the rest of his life, Goya continued to paint, although he left Spain for Bordeaux, France, in 1824. With the final period of his life spent painting lithographs of scenes of bullfights, Goya died on 16 April 1826, leaving "no immediate successor" (8). Goya has influenced such diverse painters as Picasso and the modernists, and this paper shall analyze four of his works, taken from diverse periods of his artistry."

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