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Ibercaja Social Work, in conjunction with the City of Eagle, today inaugurated the exhibition on May 6 in the first installment of "The Disasters of War 'of the Aragonese painter Francisco de Goya.
The exhibition will last until June 30 on the first floor of efificio of The Placetón, street Floridablanca.
During this time, visitors can enjoy the 80 engravings that make up the series that Goya made about the cruelty of war.
After this time, the exhibition will travel Ibercaja different locations in the area of operation d ela entity.
Estella (Navarra) will take place in the next over, the month of July.
On the occasion of the recent bicentennial of the War of Independence, the Bank shows the great series of etchings that Goya made upon it and its consequences: "Disasters of War", which is one of the most exciting sets and stunning images that an artist has been able to translate.
The Aragonese artist made these prints in full battle, between 1810 and 1814, why are almost a graphic chronicle.
Goya moved forward much more than a century the great war photographers of the twentieth century, broadcasting images of the experiences of himself and other Spanish during this very hard and disastrous military conflict between the invading French troops sent by Napoleon Bonaparte, and the Spanish patriots who opposed the imperialist desires.
PRINTS MORE DRAMATIC
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (Fuendetodos, Zaragoza, 1746 - Bordeaux 1828) has gone down in history as one of the first artists to put into question their world and everything around him.
In some of his paintings and most of his prints are the critical actors, reporting and satire.
"Disasters of War" is the most dramatic series of prints.
For political reasons, were not published these testimonies of war until 1863, 35 years after the author died.
According to the scholar Arturo Anson, "Goya initially wanted to create destruction, violence and horrors that he looked at Zaragoza after the first site and during the trip from Madrid to Zaragoza ... but then had no doubt the necessity of continuing shaping the horrors of that war going beyond the conflict itself was immersed in our country. "
Disaster, therefore, are an argument against war in general and violence it generates.
In this series, the artist makes a harsh and stark reflection on the man immersed in a war situation, which brings cruelty, rape, death, hunger and misery.
Denounces the atrocities committed by the French army against the Spanish people, but also the violence of the guerrillas and uncontrolled mass.
The result is surprisingly modern for its time, reflecting the failure of reason in which both hoped the picture of the time.
The first two parts of disasters tell the war and its consequences.
In the third part, from the number 66 and even 80, Goya attacked the absolute power restored in Spain by Ferdinand VII, against the return to the Ancien Regime, against the Church, an ally of absolute power, the Inquisition and against Spanish subjugation of those powers.
EAGLES (Murcia)
Exhibition "Goya: The Disasters of War."
From May 6 to June 30, 2010.
The Placetón, plant 1.
Floridablanca, 9-B.
Visiting hours: Monday to Saturday from 10 to 14 and from 17 to 20 h.
Opening: Thursday, May 6, 1920 hours.
Supported by: Hon.
Eagle City Hall.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Águilas
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