No Se Convienen
Francisco de Goya (ca. 1812)
This is from Los Desastres de Guerra (The Horrors of War), a series of 81 etchings made by Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746–1828) during the Napoleonic Wars in Spain. The title translates to, “They don’t agree.” You can click on the image to get an enlarged view of the etching.
August 12th, 2006 at 12:16 pm
[...] After the war, Dix suffered from recurring nightmares and other symptoms of symptoms of shell shock. His political views became increasingly leftist and anti-war. In 1924, he published a book of etchings entitled Der Krieg (War). The series of etchings, consciously modelled on Francisco de Goya’s Los Desastres de la Guerra which drew on his experiences, and the experiences of his fellow soldiers, both in active combat and after the war. The critic G.H. Hamilton described War as perhaps the most powerful as well as the most unpleasant anti-war statements in modern art… It was truly this quality of unmitigated truth, truth to the most commonplace and vulgar experiences, as well as the ugly realities of psychological experience, that gave his work a strength and consistency attained by no other contemporary artist…. [...]