Goya: A Questioning Concerning an Attitude of Life Structured by a Society, a Church, a Monarchy

An artist of the Enlightenment, Francisco Goya, through his exquisitely explicit etchings and paintings, speaks to us without ever "speaking" a word, of truths we know of man's inhumanity towards man with a sense of urgency though from a remote time and a remote place. No person belongs to any time but his own yet Goya transcends his own age; a true hinge figure: the last of what was going -- The Old Masters -- and the first of what was to come -- The Modernists -- exposing us most vividly to a direct questioning of an irreverent attitude toward life with a persistent skepticism, seeing through the "official structures of society" and not paying "flexible homage to authority."

Join us as we explore the life and works of the revolutionary Spanish painter, the "Great Demolisher" himself, Francisco Goya. Presented by Professor Karri Fritz-Klaus of Cornerstone History Symposium.

This is the first lecture in a five-part series, “Revolution Pictured in Frames.” Mark your calendar for the next presentation (6/10: Romanticism). Free to attend. No registration required.