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In 1973, at the age of 47, Goya suffered a near-fatal illness which left him profoundly deaf. Had he not survived, the Goya we now acknowledge as a universal and independent genius would scarcely have existed. His talent for experimentation and observation made his last thirty-five years the most productive of his life.
Goya's extraordinary inventive imagination permeates his paintings and prints of this time, but is at its most immediate and palpable in his drawings.
In eight separate albums, dating from 1796 to the time of his death in 1826, he thought and re-thought and extemporized on a vast range of subjects: from scenes of everyday life to the horrors of war; religious pageants, from carnival to Holy Week; extraordinary flights of fancy, nightmare and biting satire; and a whole range of images, encompassing majas and monks, lunatics and witches, charlatans and procuresses, dancers and roller-skaters, youth and old age.
This video begins by taking a brief look at Goya's earlier career before focusing on the period 1796-1828, exploring the drawings and their context, examining his techniques and style as well as his subject-matter.
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In 1793, at the age of 47, Goya suffered a near-fatal illness which left him profoundly deaf. Had he not survived, the Goya we now acknowledge as a universal and independent genius would scarcely have existed. His talent for experimentation and observat
