The ‘Black Paintings’ is the name given to a group of paintings by which Spanish artist?
Black Paintings Black Paintings The Black Paintings (Spanish: Pinturas negras) is the name given to a group of fourteen paintings by Francisco Goya from the later years of his life, likely between 1819 and 1823. They portray intense, haunting themes, reflective of both his fear of insanity and his bleak outlook on humanity. In 1819, at the age of 72, Goya moved into a two-storey house outside Madrid that was called "Quinta del Sordo" ("Deaf Man's Villa"). Although the house had been named after the previous owner, who was deaf, Goya too was nearly deaf at the time as a result of
Black Paintings The photographs also document the state of the drawings before they were moved, showing, for example, that a large part of the right-hand side of "Witches’ Sabbath" has not been conserved, although it was transferred to canvas by Martínez Cubells. The chromatic range of the "Black Paintings" is limited to ochre, gold, brown, grey and black. Only the occasional white shines from clothes to give contrast or the rare stroke of blue from the sky or green from a landscape. Perhaps the best known of the "Black Paintings" is "Saturn Devouring His Son". The image portrays the Titan Kronos (or