The Creepy Atmosphere in Goya's Engraving

• Main Authors: Yin-HsuanChien, 簡吟軒
• Other Authors: Yi-Fang Wu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/21094181278562558312

碩士 === 國立成功大學 === 藝術研究所 === 103 === Francisco José de Goya(1746-1828), is the best representative of the Spanish Romanticism artists. For his artistic achievement, in addition to the well-known portrait works, Goya’s engravings is also very successful. The content of engravings present that artist criticizes Spanish society’s darkness, greed, corruption by a ridicule way with irony in order to express inner resentment injustice. When most people talk about Goya, they would be highly praised of artistic value, especially for the creepy atmosphere in Goya engravings. In view of this, the study focus on the picture album which published by the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts in 2004. The picture album named “La exposicion de los grabados de Goya: critica social por el mundo negro y blanco” which included Goya’s two series of engravings, “Los Caprichos” and “Los Desastres de la Guerra.” The study would try to analysis the creepy atmosphere in this two series of Goya engravings. How mysterious elements make Goya’s engravings full with creepy atmosphere? How Goya constitutes the picture successfully by adding mysterious elements to express a strange environment? And lead the viewer into the mysterious dark and scary world. Try to look again that Goya’s engravings not only for social criticism and mocking the upper class, but also for creepy atmosphere which combined with mysterious elements. Let the world know that Goya’s engravings have different artistic value which we seldom discover.