Goya: Order and Disorder
Francisco Goya-1746-1828
Museum of Fine Arts--Boston
Exhibition of 170 paintings, prints, and drawings--October 12-January 19, 2015
Self-Portrait with Dr. Arrieta
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Review by Sebastian Smee for the the Boston Globe
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New York Times review by Holland Cotter
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Boston Magazine review by Olga Khvan
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Providence Journal by Bill Van Siclen
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Commentary from WBUR-Boston's NPR
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*** Confronting the unthinkable in Goya's Art
by Sebastian Smee--Boston Globe Staff-January 10, 2015
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A reader's comment in response to the above article:
"The MFA show portrayed so much more than the
typical Goya portraits and religious scenes. The portrayal of war was
clearly disquieting. The Seated Giant took on a new meaning for me after
studying the “Disasters of War” and “Caprichos” etchings. The second
time through the show I hardly stopped in the large room with all the
portraits, but lingered in the last two rooms where I got a new
understanding of the depth of Goya's thinking about the tragedy of war
and especially of the Peninsular War. As spectacular as the portraits
and the Last Communion of Saint Joseph of Calasanz are, the depiction of
war and violence are what will stay with me.
Thanks to the MFA for a great show and to Mr. Smee for his usual insights."
Thanks to the MFA for a great show and to Mr. Smee for his usual insights."
Francisco Goya is widely celebrated as the most important Spanish artist of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the last of the Old Masters and the first of the Moderns. MFA
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