In this lecture we explore a genre of visual art that Goya spearheaded. While others were painting beautiful pictures, Goya was breaking the boundaries of established art aesthetics. The paintings in this lecture were not commissioned works, but self-created, so Goya had the freedom to realise his ideas
* Report by Karla Ingleton Darocas. Hons. B. A. (KarlaDarocas.com)
Ever since Edmund Burke wrote his 1757 treatise on aesthetics entitled A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, Goya sought to reverse the current artistic trend of neoclassical art and its penchant for the beautiful.
His anti-classical approach was a rational choice. He wanted to explore the sublime by provoking the appalling actions and circumstances that preoccupied humanity.
Goya's experiments with the terrifying sublime encouraged the transition from the neoclassical to the romantic era.
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