London and Goya-Travelling to London,Admiring at the British Museum the splendid Exhibition : Renaissance to Goya.Beautiful drawings and prints never displayed before and with highlight the Spanish Master Francisco Goya until the 06th January 2013.

 A free entrance to the British Museum it is not a present you can have every day.London and its fantastic museum offer an immense opportunity to admire free the exhibition : Renaissance to Goya dedicated to a group of fantastic masters displaying some of  drawings and prints by several artists mainly from Spain such as Zurbaran,Murillo Velazquez,Cano,Carducho,also by the great Italian Master Tiepolo but with highlight of one of the great Masters of the 1700s and early 1800s,Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes commonly known as Francisco Goya.

It is undoubtedly a great cultural and artistic event an incentive for tourism,for travelling,to admire the artistic masterpieces of a great talent which the Spanish genius increasing your knowledge.Visit a gallery,a museum is always a reason to enlarge and enrich your skills,art is always a more the valid instrument to transmit people concepts and notions that bring inspiration no doubt,but knowing also the history,asking ourselves because there wasa kind of art at that time,every artistic period is generated from historical influences and situations that have created history,our history, the history of mankind.

The Exhibition dedicated to the Spanish Master displays some of  drawings and prints by several artists mainly from Spain such as Zurbaran,Murillo,Velazquez,Cano,Carducho,also by the great Italian Master Tiepolo.

Goya was a painter who was for many one of the precursors and of course inspiration of Expressionism movement, transmitting sensations and emotions of reality, but also of Expressionism another Movement born many years later,Goya was a spontaneous and instinctive genius as the Impressionists, who probably gave the inspiration to the Impressionists to use certain colours of different gradation for the background ,a variety of lights,soft,vivid and intense in their works.

The originality of Goya painting, always created interest and mistery,also aroused pain is the case of his masterpieces Tres de Mayo de 1808 and La Muerte del Picador (a shooting in the first and a man dying in a bullfight in the second) or cheerfulness and happiness,some examples are the Boda (the Marriage) and El baile en las orillas deel Manzanares (the Dance next to the River Manzanares) Francisco Goya was also an artist transmitted eroticism in his famous works La Maya Desnuda and La Maya Vestida, depicting an attractive and sensual  woman,with a captivating,sensual gaze and expressions,on a couch naked in the first painting mentioned and dressed in the second. ,Goya also painted scenes linked to the religion,daily life, folklore of his country,the bullfighting sin Spain,scenes depicting mysterious scenes of monsters and ghosts in his cycle of works Las Pinturas Negras (, the Black Paintings).

It is really fascinating to discover Goya,the Aragones painter was an artist of immense talent,  versatile enigmatic and multifaceted.Every subject, person or animal,place or object,mood and periods that generated events,were always for Goya a source of inspiration,everything was for him something to paint with its style,using various tonalities and gradations of colours.Goya was also fascinating because apart all that he was also a great portraitist for the Royal Family and for many Spanish aristocrats.He entered in the great history  of life,with his unique style,sometimes romantic,other times decadentist,able to paint with relevant meanings different sides of the daily life,a precursor of psychological painting,generating among his admirers modern artists such as Monet or Picasso who in many occasions took him as a model to create their plastic masterpieces.Further more Goya was also a great engraver, particularly devoted to this artistic activity in his last period of life in Bordeaux. created  other masterpieces.

Travelling to London and discover Goya is a magnificent opportunity to admire the beautiful British Museum and with entrance free,admiring some works of a great Master of art that has shaped generations of artists and that has made history with his impressive talent.
Francesco Mari

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