Following Goya's models

Spanish school of the 20th century. Following models of FRANCISCO DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES (Zaragoza, 1746 - Bordeaux, 1828).
"You will not escape", plate 72 of "Los Caprichos".
Ink on antique paper.
Measurements: 22 x 15 x 46 cm.

The Caprichos of Goya are a series of 80 engravings made by the painter. They exemplify a world in crisis, understood in the sense of change. Conceptually, they reveal the fissures of a socio-political structure based on an impeded stratification, and of a system of values based on the immobilism of customs and the tyrannical religious oppression of consciences. Aesthetically, they anticipate modern sensibility and the shift towards an art dominated by subjectivity and creative freedom. Biographically, the Caprichos appear in one of the most decisive decades in Goya's life and artistic production. That is why the successive generations of writers, artists and intellectuals of the last two centuries have not been able to escape from its status as a symbol: symbol of the end of the Ancien Régime, of the change of taste between classicist and romantic aesthetics, and of the crisis produced in the biography and art of a universal creator.