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April 21, 2021
On Wednesday, April 21, from 4-5 p.m. join this virtual program, by Janis A. Tomlinson who is lecturing about the exhibition, World Without Reason: Goya’s Los Disparates. At some point between his 70th and 75th year, the Spanish artist Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) etched images published thirty-six years after his death as Los Proverbios. Following that 1864 publication, impressions of the plates with titles in Goya’s hand that described the scenes as disparates, perhaps best translated as “irrationalities” came to light, justifying the title by which we today know these etchings. In this lecture, Janis Tomlinson will discuss how the intriguing imagery of these works mark a new creative departure for Goya, to be continued in works to follow, including the well-known “black” paintings. An internationally recognized authority on Goya, Janis Tomlinson is the author of several books on the artist. Tomlinson’s recently published biography
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April 16, 2021
On Wednesday, April 21, from 4-5 p.m. join this virtual program, by Janis A. Tomlinson who is lecturing about the exhibition, World Without Reason: Goya’s Los Disparates. At some point between his 70th and 75th year, the Spanish artist Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) etched images published thirty-six years after his death as Los Proverbios. Following that 1864 publication, impressions of the plates with titles in Goya’s hand that described the scenes as disparates, perhaps best translated as “irrationalities” came to light, justifying the title by which we today know these etchings. In this lecture, Janis Tomlinson will discuss how the intriguing imagery of these works mark a new creative departure for Goya, to be continued in works to follow, including the well-known “black” paintings. An internationally recognized authority on Goya, Janis Tomlinson is the author of several books on the artist. Tomlinson’s recently published biography
April 2, 2021
Exhibition Date: April 5, 2021 – Ongoing
Dreamlike and wonderous, yet gravely dark and harrowing, are all descriptors associated with Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes’ (1746-1828) last major print cycle, Los Disparates (or Los Proverbios). Published in 1864, thirty-six years after the artist’s death, these masterful etchings are still considered to be enigmatic and ambiguous, eluding definitive explanation and interpretation. While the Spanish term “disparate” translates imperfectly to “folly”, in Goya’s time the term held harsher connotations closer in meaning to stupidity or madness. And yet, Los Disparates were born of specific circumstances referencing fanatic religious practices of the day, the plight of political prisoners, and the decadence of court life and the aristocracy. Within these remarkable etchings is a realm of witches, ghosts, and fantastical creatures that invade the mind; Goya’s troubled visions remain a potent warning aga