Inspiring Artists: Francisco de Goya
No. of pages 48
Published: 2016
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Inspiring Artists tells us what it is that makes some famous artists so important and memorable, not only in terms of their artistic legacy, but also as to their impact on the wider world. It explores their life and times through significant pieces of their art, looking at the work in terms of its context, from conflict (Goya), to festivities (Bruegel) to personal struggle (Van Gogh). Each work is also considered in terms of its style, technique and artistic innovation.
As a royal painter and national treasure, Francisco de Goya (1746-1828) painted celebrated official portraits of the most important people in his Spain. Privately, he explored disturbing themes of fantasy, darkness and death in daring, modern works of art that made him a hero to a generation of artists including Edvard Munch, Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso.
This book is part of a book series called Inspiring Artists .
This book is aimed at children in primary school.
There are 48 pages in this book. This book was published 2016 by Hachette Children's Group .
Since landing on planet Earth, Paul Rockett has spent much of his time reading up on the adventures of human life, while also experiencing a few of his own. In his quest to find out more about his chosen home planet, Paul has travelled, doodled, eaten a lot of food, plundered dusty libraries and gazed out of windows. Having gathered together a vast amount of fascinating data, it is now his mission to present as much as he can in interesting ways, so that any passing Martian can see how brilliant life is on Earth.
This book has the following chapters:
- 1: First of the Moderns
- 2: Getting known
- 3: Tapestry designer
- 4: The Royal Academy
- 5: Self-portraits
- 6: Painter to the King
- 7: Another world
- 8: The Duchess and the Majas
- 9: Witches and demons
- 10: Los Caprichos
- 11: The Family of Charles IV
- 12: The Colossus
- 13: The Disasters of War
- 14: History painter
- 15: The Third of May, 1808
- 16: Follies
- 17: The Black Paintings
- 18: Final flourishes
- 19: A modern visionary
- 20: Timeline
- 21: Selected works
- 23: Glossary
- 24: Index
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