Tag Archives: Lisa Abend

the deaf man’s house: paint it black

Posted on February 16, 2011 by Dave

Somehow with Francisco Goya, we never quite ask why a man whose friends in maturity were among the most enlightened thinkers and the most devoted moralists of the age of reason; a man who, we have kept telling ourselves, shared … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous | Tagged Francisco Goya, Fred Licht, goya Black paintings, Jesse Bering, Kenneth Clark, Lisa Abend, Mark Vallen, Philip Hofer, Reva Wolf, Robert Hughes, Sir Kenneth Clark, Thomas W. Clark | Leave a comment

Los caprichos: a wasteland of reason

Posted on February 14, 2011 by Dave

But if Francisco Goya saw vice, corruption and foolishness in high places, Goya, unlike many of his contemporaries in France and England , did not discover a compensatory nobility in the common man. In fact, the contrary. His first great … Continue reading →