G is for Goya, War, the Chapman Brothers and Barron Storey

Goya,

Francisco Jose de Goya Lucientes

born on the 30th of March 1746

in Fuendetodos, Aragon, Spain

and died from a stroke at 82

in Bordeaux on the 16th of April 1828.

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He was court painter to the Spanish Royal Family,
he also documented the short and long term effects of
the Peninsular War (1808-1814)
as well as the Dos de Mayo Uprising.
This series of aquatint illustrations
was entitled
"Desastres de la Guerra" (1812-1815)

Plate 3 - Source

It took 35 years for the collection of illustrations
of Goya's Disasters of War to be published due to
its criticism of the French and the Bourbons.

The plates are divided into three sections:
Plates 1 - 47 - Incidents and results of war on civilians and military personnel
Plates 48 - 64 - Effects of famine in Madrid (1811-1812)
Plates 65 - 80 - Thoughts of the liberals once the Bourbon Monarchy had been restored

Plate 71 - Against the Common Good - Source

A collection of the plates can be seen here.

The Chapman Brothers added their own perspective 
to a mint condition portfolio by adding 
either clown or puppy heads to the faces on the prints.

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 In an addendum to this recordings of genocide, 
the artist Barron Storey created an updated version. 
Black Iraq - where he tried to draw and paint every person
that died in the Iraq War. 
The exhibition can be seen here.

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No doubt, this blog will revisit war.

Our Chosen Instrument - #11 - Eduardo Alvarado Sánchez-Cortés

Eduardo Alvarado Sánchez-Cortés was born in Miranda de Ebro in 1972. 

The palaeolithic art in the caves of Altamira, the Spanish Baroque painting and the work of Miguelangelo made their mark in the childhood of Eduardo.When he was a teenager, he discovered the works of the painter Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele and the illustrator Barron Storey. From that moment, these artists became a continuous reference for Eduardo's work.

In 1990, he began to study Fine Arts at the UPV and two years later moved to Madrid where he finished his education in 1995, the year in which he began to exhibit his work.

In 1999, he moved to La Rioja, where he developed his intensive artistic work ethic and has also lived in Castilla y Leon and, especially, in the Basque Country.

Since 2005, he resides with his wife, children and cats in the city in which he was born.

His work is found in over a hundred collections and this has led him to exhibit his works both in his home country and also abroad; the highlights being an exhibition in the USA alongside some of the renowned artists of the Figurative Movement of California to Nathan Oliveira, Richard Diebenkorn or Kim Froshin. He has had numerous exhibitions in Serbia with the artist Vesna Pavlovic, or his last solo exhibition in France in the gallery GAAB.

He currently divides his time between his prolific activity as a draftsman and painter with pedagogy in numerous courses, workshops and conferences.

He has his own website, a blog and a Facebook page.