Saturn Devouring His Son
Francisco Goya1823Oil on plaster (transferred to canvas)
One of Goya's haunting Black Paintings, made directly on the walls of his farmhouse. The expressionistic distortion and near-monochromatic horror anticipates 20th century art by nearly a century.
Color Mood
Horrifying and inescapable. Goya reduces the palette to flesh, blood, and void — the three elements of the nightmare. A painting that cannot be unseen.
Museo del Prado, Madrid
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romanticismdarkexpressionismhorrorblack-painting