Francisco Goya. Best paintings. Astakhov A.

Francisco Goya lived in an unstable time for Spain. The master of the romantic direction in creativity, Goya relied both on folklore and on the experiences of contemporaries. The images created by him show the viewer and the despair of the heroes, and an acute sense of joy. The great Spanish artist Francisco Goya is called the master of the romantic direction. The artist and grave, in a bright, expressive manner, depicted evil, violence, suffering of people, which occupied not the last place in the artist’s work. Goya turned to folk tales, legends, used a grotesque in creating images. In his best paintings, he rose to high generalizations, in which both despair, disappointment, disbelief, and an acute sense of joy of life.