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<\/a>The Goya exhibit will be on display in the Thompson Gallery Nov. 1-Dec. 21.<\/p><\/div>\n
\u201cLos Caprichos is widely recognized as Goya\u2019s most important series of prints, particularly for its poignant social and political commentary,\u201d said Elizabeth Hamlett, Furman\u2019s university collections manager.<\/p>\n
The exhibit, sponsored by the Art Department and the Furman University Decorative Fine Arts Committee, is free and open to the public. Gallery hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday.<\/p>\n
Goya (1746-1828) was a court painter to the Spanish Crown and a chronicler of history. The satirical \u201cLos Caprichos,\u201d created between 1793 and 1798 and published in 1799, depict what Goya described as \u201cthe innumerable foibles and follies to be found in any civilized society, and from the common prejudices and deceitful practices which custom, ignorance, or self-interest have made usual.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLos Caprichos,\u201d essentially a book with a moral message, focuses on four main themes: satirical comment on poor education and ignorance; condemnation of society\u2019s traditional vices; deceit in relationships between men and women; and protest against abuses of power, according to the Prado Museum in Madrid.\u00a0 The Prado is hosting \u201cGoya\u2019s Drawings Restored\u201d through January 20, a selection of 14 preparatory drawings in red chalk which Goya created for the Los Caprichos series.<\/p>\n
Furman has 27 of the 80 \u201cLos Caprichos\u201d prints in its collection. A selection of those etchings went on display in September 1996, after they were first given to the university by the late George and Gerda McCahan.\u00a0 Dr. Gerda McCahan, who served as a psychology professor at Furman for 28 years, was given the prints by her father who collected the various editions of prints during his trips to Europe.<\/p>\n
Some have called Goya the father of modern art because of his bold, innovative technique and darkly satiric outlook that emerged after a serious illness in the 1790s left him deaf.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis subject matter, technique and composition influenced Impressionist and Post-Impressionists such as Manet and Toulouse-Lautrec, and his tormented works led to the tortured paintings of the German Expressionists and even many of the current Neo-Expressionists and Post Modernists,\u201d Olof Sorensen, Professor of Art Emeritus, wrote in a Furman magazine article describing the \u201cLos Caprichos\u201d series.<\/p>\n
\u201cFurman is proud to have as part of its collection these works, which link us to our European past yet remain a source of artistic inspiration in our own day,\u201d Sorensen said.<\/p>\n
For more information about the exhibit, call 864-294-2074.<\/p>\n
About the series:<\/strong><\/p>\n The \u201cLos Caprichos\u201d series may correctly be labeled as prints, etchings, aquatints or intaglios. A print is any graphic process that allows the artist to multiples from a plate of some sort \u2013 in the case of \u201cLos Caprichos,\u201d a sheet of copper. An intaglio is any print process that depends on a press to push dampened paper into inked grooves or indentations of a plate. An etching is a form of intaglio print in which the ink is rubbed into lines (either incised or eaten by acid into a copper or zinc plate), and the paper then pressed into those lines to receive the ink. Aquatint is the process of pitting areas of the plate in varying degrees to achieve tonal effects ranging from very pale gray to black. Because the print is pulled from a plate made by the artist and limited in number, each print is considered an original, as opposed to mechanical reproductions which are just that \u2013 reproductions \u2013 even if signed by the artist. \u00a0\u00a0\u2013 R. Olof Sorensen<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" DECEMBER 2, 2012 \u201cLos Caprichos,\u201d a series of etchings by renowned Spanish artist Francisco de Goya, will be on exhibit Nov. 1-Dec. 21 in the Thomas Roe Art Building at Furman.\u00a0 The exhibit marks the first time Furman\u2019s entire collection of Los Caprichos etchings has been on display.\u00a0The exhibit, sponsored by the Art Department and the Furman’s Decorative Fine Arts Committee, is free and open to the public. Gallery hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":884,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-art"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nby Erikah Haavie, Contributing Writer<\/p>\n