Francisco Goya. Caprichos

The album introduces the reader to the artistic peculiarity of a series of etchings of the Spanish
artist Francisco Goya (1746-1828) "Caprifot" (1793-1799) Series etchings,
belonging to the masterpieces of Goya"s graphics, tell about modern realities
The political and social life of Spain, then experiencing a deep crisis. The main plot lines of the series are self -deception and pretense, the metaphor of the human world as an animal, the dream of reason and the awakening of human consciousness. Sarcastically ridicuating the vices of ordinary people, the hypocrisy of the nobility, the ruling couple, the church, the Inquisition, Goya acts as a harbinger of future public disasters. The themes of its graphic sheets did not lose relevance in the 21st century. Goya"s Caprichos became one of the largest mysteries in world art. Placing the tragic and comic, sublime and low, terrible and funny, the artist created a new genre of tragic grotesque