artist of the day---goya

What can I say about Goya? Even his court paintings of the aristocrats and kings were brutal and honest. He exposed the hemophiliac behind the withered courtly smile. He was very successful in his day and lives on as one of the great spanish painters of all time. To many he is the first modernist (I agree.) In his last days he lived alone and almost blind painted his "black paintings" on the plaster walls of his Spanish home. He spent much of his life exposing hypocrisy in all it's many forms. He also etched his Caprichio's which changed my life when exhibited at the Metropolitan Musuem of Art. (Please google him and look at his etchings as they are master works of the highest level.)