| Francisco Goya a short history of the artist Francisco Goya | |||
Among the artist's who discarded the old type of subject matter was the great Spanish painter Francisco Goya (1746-1828) Goya was well versed in the best traditions of Spanish painting which had produced El Greco, and Velasquez. | |||
 Francisco Goya. | Francisco Goya's portraits which secured him a place at the Spanish court look superficially like the traditional state portraits of Van Dyck and of Reynolds. The skill with which he conjured up the glitter of silk and gold recalls Titian or Velasquez but he also looks at his sitters with a different eye. Not that these masters had flattered the mighty but Francisco Goya seems to have no pity. He made their features reveal all their vanity and ugliness, their greed and emptiness. Artist's from all over the world came into contact with impressionism in Paris and carried away with them the new discoveries and also the new attitude of the artist's as a rebel against the prejudices and conventions of the bourgeois world. See a video excerpt of classical guitarist Julian Bream playing La Maja De Goya with Goya paintings. 
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