Art on the side of the weak is a concept that was not always so obvious had been allowed a few times and only in ironic sense that the artist took the part of the loser in history, with Goya but the question changed radically in 1814 the artist proposed to the council of the regency to realize the moments on canvas most salient of the Spanish resistance against the defeated troops of Napoleon. The result was two works of which one is May 3, 1808 which represents the moment when the French they shot all of them without trial Spaniards suspected of having participated to the riot of 2 May. The focal point of the painting is man kneeling with open arms illuminated by the light of the lantern he wears a white shirt only clear note of the whole composition in which the tones prevail dark.
A platoon of soldiers is deployed in front of him. They are all shoulders and this is why we can not see their faces. Very touching the look of the desperate in waiting for the gunshots and raw are the figures on the ground of the already executed in first line a hill separates the scene from the background of the night sky on which the city profile astonished witness e impotent of so much horror the work soon became an icon against the inhumanity of war stripped of every heroism.
The art of Francisco Goya who passed unharmed through four sovereigns and two revolutions remaining in balance on the thin wire diplomacy in an era of riots and violence today we can divide it into two great periods. In the first part of his life in fact before the disease the artist expressed himself with imagination and carefree ignoring what it was cruelty or physical discomfort. instead in the second part with the arrival of maturity and illness that will make dull his art became gloomy dramatic and distressing.
The war with all his horrors and injustices came at the painter's door and he did it enter his life observing the late paintings made by Goya seems to us to be one step from the hell and in the gloomy diabolical terms and gloomy we can summarize the sense of his journey at the end of the night but perhaps this is the task of an artist. Even with the risk of go crazy or go deaf Goya he looked into the abyss of the condition human and through his works there he told what he saw.
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