You know something funny? On internet, when someone says that something feels like a Goya painting, they mean this:
But most of your average Spaniards who went through high school history classes would think of this:
Kind of a different vibe 😁
Now I think of it, it’s kind of funny. The guy was SUPER famous back in the early 19th century, he was the court painter of the Spanish crown and all that, but most of the “goth” paintings people on internet know him for were almost fanfiction he painted for him and his closest friends: his “black paintings” were all done as decorations of his house just outside Madrid (where he retired trying to flee from the court because his quite left-wing opinions made him to be at odds with the royalty), were only his closest circle was invited. They weren’t actually found by the public until decades after his death.
So Goya would 100% be on Tumblr if he lived today. He would be a famous artist with a nice and shiny blog with hundreds of thousands followers, while keeping a secret secondary blog to post all kinds of deranged illustrations of the obscure fandoms he is into, mostly goth and horror stuff, for his 30 mutuals. His house would look like Guillermo Del Toro’s:
Reconstruction of how Goya’s house was decorated:
And actually got at trouble at work (the court) for posting too lefty stuff in his main blog (see “los caprichos”, a print series of proto-comics where he parodies the aristocrats of the day and the “disasters of war”, another print series where he criticizes the monarchy), to the point of having to delete part of it after posting (they stopped printing the “disasters” after just two copies, in fear of the king getting mad at him)
