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An anti-war masterpiece: Third of May 1808, Francisco de Goya (1814)


Napoleonic troops executing Spanish rebels during the French occupation. The rebels - a Christ-like figure in white; state - faceless mass of soldiers. There’re no heroes there. 


Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid

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Have a special affinity for Goya and his fearless grappling with the grotesque.

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His dark period is really dark! It doesn’t translate at all in pictures. All these motives and figures are horrifying

Totally, I think artists sometimes delve into this darkness to hold it up as a mirror to the world. Look what horror we have wrought. And thereby neutralize hatred or violence and bring us back to a place of connection. This is the hope

Totally. Goya was reveling the truth but people didn’t want to look at it. His illness and becoming deaf totally changed his art