Goya's Mastery in Prints: Los Disparates
June 21, 2007 - September 30, 2007
Cropped image of Francisco José de Goya
(1746-1828),
Modo de volar (A Way of Flying)
Plate No. 13 from Los Disparates, 1815-1824,
etching and burnished aquatint,
Meadows Museum, SMU, Dallas, Algur H. Meadows Collection,
MM.67.09.13.
Photograph by Michael Bodycomb.
UAMA continues the
presentation of Goya's Mastery in Prints, a
four-exhibition cycle of extraordinary etching suites by Francisco de
Goya on loan from the Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University in
Dallas, Texas. These exhibitions celebrate the Spanish master's
revolutionary graphic techniques and profound influence on subsequent
artistic generations.
The second suite in this series, Los
Disparates (mad and
absurd ideas) is an enigmatic group of 18 etchings (with 4 supplementary
etchings added later) that comprise the artist's last major undertaking
in printmaking. Difficult to characterize, the suite includes dark,
dream-like scenes that scholars have related to political issues,
traditional
proverbs and the Spanish carnival.
