#caprichos

[viejospellejos]

Si vas a darte un capricho, elige sabiamente:

[eri-s-ink-pot]

27-02-26 (Forgot to post this one 🤓)

📍Real Academia de San Fernando (Madrid, Spain)

Their collection of the caprichos and disasters of the war added to the way they show both the copper plaque and stamp... it's simply gorgeous.

Also, it's so funny to read Goya's letters as to why he would not change a thing on a fresco he worked on, and that he is an artist protected by the king himself (no, he wasn't at that time 😆) so they shouldn't disrespect him like that. Yeah, go tell them baby.

[deludedflower]

Annemarie Heinrich, Caprichos, Anita Grimm, 1936

[no-tritones-for-you]

Passacaglia on the “Dies irae” | Castelnuovo-Tedesco | Lorenzo Micheli

[disease]

CAPRICHOS – "QUIÉN MÁS RENDIDO" FRANCISCO DE GOYA // XXVI, 1797-99 [etching and aquatint | 21.5 x 15.1 cm.]

[themeitrix]

“El camino del descreimiento suele ser éste: primero creemos algo de un modo literal. Después creemos que es en verdad la metáfora de otra cosa. Más tarde, descubrimos que toda metáfora es un capricho y entonces dejamos de creer”.

-Alejandro Dolina (El Bar del Infierno)

[fullmoonnightinseptember]

[themuseumwithoutwalls]

MWW Artwork of the Day (11/27/22) Francisco Goya (Spanish, 1746-1828) Caprichos #39 (1799) His Grandfather was one too (Asta su Abuelo) Aquatint print, 31.8 x 22.2 cm

The eighty "Los Caprichos" aquatint plates of 1799 were Goya's first foray in a new direction. Satirical graphic art certainly existed before him (Hogarth comes to mind) but never before had anyone dared such a scathing and uncompromising critique of social manners and hypocrisy. "Prado" Manuscript Commentary for this print: This poor creature has managed to make an ass of himself through Genealogy and Heraldry.  He's not the only one we know who has. (A este pobre animal le han vuelto loco los Genialogistas y reyes de Armas. No es el solo.) Goya caricatures here the pride of the hidalgos. Some 500,000 of Spain's population of around 10 million considered themselves to belong to this lesser branch of the nobility. Since work was beneath their station, most of them were impoverished, their only possessions being a long line of ancestors.

For the complete set of eighty Caprichos prints, see this MWW gallery/album: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.527490100689697&type=3