The sun., 1908-04-05

ida Carl JUST, Sterling Maxwell, c. q.
Hartley should also be consulted. Yriarte
IL interesting, inasmuch a. he deals with the
abparition Of GoyR In Rome an outlaw,
but a blithe one who, notebook In hand
went through the Trastevere district sketch
ing with ferocious rapidity the attitudes
and gestures Of the vivacious population.
A man after Stendhal's heart, this Spaniard.
And In view Of his private life one is tempted
to add-and after the heart, too, OF Casa
nova Notwithstanding he was an unriv-
allied interpreter Of child life. Some Of his
painted children are Of dazzling sweetness.
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H.
Francisco jose de Goya Luoientes was
born March 30 Tor 81, i7I6, at Fuentetodos,
near Saragossa, Aragon. He died at Bor-
deauK. France. where he had gone for his
health, April 10. ls2s-Calvert. possibly by
a pen slip, makes him expire month earlier
He saw the beginnings Of French roman
ticism, as he was himself a witness OF the
decadenoe Of Spanish art But his spirit
has lived on In Manet and Zuloaga, De-
oadent he was; a Romantic before French
romantcism, he yet had borrowed from
an earlier France Some Of his gay Fetes
Champetres recall the influence Of Watteau-
a Vatican without the sweet elegiac strain.
He has been called Spanish Hogarth-not
q happy simile Hogarth breaches Goya
never; satirists both, Goya never deepened
by a pen stroke the didactio side. His
youth was not extraordinary in promise;
his father and mother were poor peasants.
The story OF his discovery by a monk Of
Saragosela-F Felix Salvador Of the
Carthusian convent Of Aula Del i-is not miss
ing He studied with Jose Martinez, He
ran away In l760 He remained, say some,
in Italy from 1889 TO l774; but in III he ap-
peared in Saragossa again, and the year
l772 saw him competing for the painting
about 20 be undertaken In the Cathedral.
He married Josefa Bayou, the sister Of the
court painter, He has told us what he
thought Of his jealous intriguing brother-in-
law in portrait. In l775 he was at Madrid,
From l776 he executed forty-aix tapestry
cartoons. In l719 ha presented to the
King his etchings after Nelasquez. His
rise was rapid. He painted the courtesan
queen, with her false teeth false hair and
her internal simper, and this portrait was
acclaimed a masterpiece. 1t is, for the
psychology is as true as 1t Is vile.
His religious frescoes. supposed TO be
dd ma djorem Del gioridm, were really for
the greater glory Of Goya, They are some
thing more than secular, often short Of
blasphemous. That they were tolerated
proves the cynical temper Of his times.
When the fat old sooundrel Of q Bourbon
King ran away with all his court and
the pusilanlmous Joseph Bonaparte came
upon the scene Goya swerved and went
through the motions Of loyalty, thing that
rather disturbs the admirers Of the sup
posedly sturdy republican. But he was
only marking time, He left a terrific ar
raignment Of war and It's horrors. Nor did
ho 52a-a the French. Ccllot, Hell-Breughel,
are outdone in these swift, ghastly memo
randa Of misery, barbarity, rapine and ruin,
The -hypocrte Ferdinand VII. was no
soorcS-cn the throne Of his father than
Goya, hat in hand Out sneer on his IiP and
twinkle in eye, approached him, and after
some parleying was restored to royal favor.
Goya declared that as an artist he was not
personally concerned in the pranks Of the
whirllgig polite. Nevertheless he was
bitterly chagrined at the twist Of events,
and, an old man. he retired to his country
house, where he etched and designed
upon It's walls startling fancies. He died,
dislllusioned. and though tenderly nursed
by some noble oountrymen his career
seemed to illustrate that terrifying picture
Of his invention-R skeleton Lifts its grave
stone and grinningly traces with bony
finger in the dust the word Nodc -Nothingl
Overtaxed by the violence OF his life and
labors-he left prodigious amount Of work
behind him soured by safety. all spleen
and rage he was a brokendown Luofer,
who had trailed his wings in the mud. One
recalls here the virulent taunt OF jose de
Espronoeda (lSlO-ls42)--a poet Of Goyas
temperament, "hose senlcs slew him by
its intensity-that inveotive bestowed upon
Conde de Toreno -insolent fool with q
heart Of slime But who shall pass judg-
ment upon this unhappy man' Perhaps as
L
he saw the 'glimmering square grow less
the lament Of Cardinal Wolsey may have
come to a brain teeming with memories
Goya had always put his King before his
! God. But In his heart he loved the old
romantic faith-the faith that hovered in
the back ground Of his art, his actions. Goya
is not the first son Of his mother church
who denied her from sheer perversity
What a nationl Cervantes and Iope da
Vega, Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada most
! glorious OF her sex, saint and genius -
and Goya! Spain is the land Of great per.
sonalities. But with Calderon we must nov
say; Let us TO our ship, for here oil il
shadowy and unsettled
Goya, as Baudelaire pointed out more thar
half a century ago, executed his etohingl
by combining snuatint and the use Of the
dry point. A few years before his deatl
he took up lithography, then novelty
His "Caprices, Proverbs and Horrors o.
War" will outllve his paintings, His colo
scheme was not wide one,. blacks, reds
browns and yellows often playing solo; bu
all modern impresslonism may be seen OF
his canyases-harsh dissonances. dots. dahs
spots, patches, heavy planes strong rhyth
mic effects Of lighting, heavy impasto
luminous atmosphere, air sunshine anC
vibrating movement; also in the strange.
ness Of his material. Manet went TO him
beginner, After studying the "Maja des