I can never say enough about the genius that was/ is GOYA! He was a court painter in Spain and yet his court portraits do very little to hide his contempt for the people he painted. His honesty was to be admired and his skill to be emulated. I saw a show of his at the Met many moons ago and it left me dazed and mumbling. My favorite works of his are his disaster of war and his later black paintings. How an artist could choose an artist like Sargent over Goya is beyond me...That is like choosing TGIF's over The Palm Steakhouse. Goya legacy will hold sway for centuries (if we survive that long) and all artists should spend some time in The Prado and kneel before the master.
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