The sun., 1908-04-05

uuda. a. The Pfado Museum hg ~
turned 10 France and painted the
soIimpe.' Once OF the Luxembourg. now
In the Louvre. And the Prado Siill owns
the greater picture, The balcony scenes
Of Ooya, with their Manolas-old fashioned
grlsettes- must have stirred va vi; ;reoallthe
Frenohman . Balcony And The bulIngh'sF
OH what an iron sOtiled master was there
0oya when he slashed out q bull IN the arena
tormented BY the human brutes None OF
his Uioceaaou matches him. The same u
the oaSe With that dlvortlng, devilish, savory
and Obscene series he called 'Caprioes' u
il worth remembering that Delaorolx vas
one OF the first artists In Paris Who secured
a set Of these rare plates. The Mltohes
Sabbath and the modern version OF them,
prostitution and liz symbolism. hlled
the brain Of 0oya, He always SHOCKS
any but robust nerves, with hls hybria
creatures red In claw and foaming at mouth
a. they fight In midalr, hideOuS and un-
nanablO phantoms Of the dark His
ovls arc theologians. The females no
often shows make US turn aside our head
and Shuddsr. With implacable fidelity he
displayed tho reverse Of wars heroic shield
Il 10 something moro than hell.
sattler, Charlet, Rahet. James Ensor'
Rsthel De GrOuv Rops. Edward Munoh
tdld you ever see the woman wOoed by q
skeletonA and the rest Of these de'ineatore
Of the morbid and macabre acknoWl'
edSs Goya as their prngenitcr. He must
have heen a devil Worshipper, he Plo'
prcs the goat devil, horns and boots
Gautler oomlares him 10 +. w. HOFFMAN,
Poe not being known in Paris at that
time hut II II a rather lahored oompariHon'
lor there was a profoundly human side 70
the SpGuiard His perception Of reality
was OF the solidest. He had lived and
loved and knsw before Flaubert that II
the god Of the Romantics was an uphol-
sterer the god Of eighteenth century Spain
was an executioner. The profesSed lover
Of the Duchess OF Alba, he painted her
nude, and then. hearing that the Duke
might not like tho theme 90 handled. he
painted her again and clothed, but more
iinoienty uncovered than before. At the
Spanish museum in New York you may
see another portrait Of this bold beauty
with the name Of Goya scratched in the
earth at her feet. Her attitude 10 char
aoteristio Of the intrigue, which all Madrid
knew and approved At home sat Mrs
Coya with her twenty children.
Goya was q man Of striking appearance,
Slender in youth. a graceful dancer. IN
middle life. he had the vide shoulders and
I bull neck Of an athlete. He was the terror
! Of Madrileniah husbands. His voice had
| seductive charm. He could twang the
guitar and fenoe Hike ten devils, A game
ster, too. In a word, a figure out OF the
Renaissance, when the deed trod hard on
! the heels Of the word. One Of his SELF
portraits shows him in a Byronio collar
the brow finely proportioned, marked mobile
! features. sombre eyes--the ideal Don Juan
Tenorio to win the foolish heart OF an Emma
Bovary or a bored noblewoman, Another
with its savage eye-it is a profile and big
beaver head covering, recalls Walt Whit
mans Il wear my hat as please, indoors
or out giant egOist, and as human, all
too human, fellow as Spain Ner begot,
Goya is only hinted at in Baudelaires q
[
searching quatrain beginning: 'Goya,
cauchemar plein de chooses inconnues.
! Fleurs du Nal would be a happy
title for the work Of Francisco Goya, II "a
'The Flowers Of Evil we're added 'and
Wisdom Goya is often cruel and lasCiy'
ious and vulgar, but he is as great philoso'
pher as painter. And to Offset his pas
sionate gloom there are his visions Of q
golden Spain no longer in existence; happy
gorgeous Of costume, the Spain Of sudden
coquetries. Of fans, masques, bull fights and
fandangos, OF a people dancing on the rim
Of fire filled mountain. pious, oapricous
childlike. romantic and patriotio-the Spair
OF the eighteenth century. Goya 10 itl
spokesman, as is VelasqueE the mirror oi
Philips more spacious times Velasques -
Goyal poles asunder, yet both born TO the
artistic purple. And the stately aristoorai
who signed himself VelasqueE Is less II
tune with the twentieth century Zeit0eis
than that coarse fibred democrat Of genius
Francisco Goya.