Brooklyn Museum Library celebrates Francisco Goya, one of the featured artists in the current exhibi

Brooklyn Museum Library celebrates Francisco Goya, one of the featured artists in the current exhibition Proof: Francisco Goya, Sergei Eisenstein, Robert Longo by highlighting a rare and beautiful reprinted edition of Goya’s Tauromaquia (Bullfighting).This portfolio of prints published by Otto Beckmann Verlag in 1911 consists of a series of 33 etchings executed by Goya between 1815 and 1816. Begun in Spain, the original etchings were completed in France after Goya—having lived through civil war, invasions, and turbulent changes of régime—left his country at the age of 78 to take refuge in Bordeaux.La Tauromaquia explores the history of Spanish bullfighting in all of its spectacle, energy and brutality. Unlike Goya’s other major print portfolios the Disasters of War and Los Caprichos (featured in the current show) which were sharp and direct commentaries on controversial subjects such as war and religion. The images in La Tauromaquia express a more personal, but no less powerful, vision of contemporary Spanish society and of the political and social issues of the time.Posted by Roberta Munoz -- source link
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