"Self-Portrait with Dr. Arrieta" by Francisco Goya
The arts, quite simply, nourish the soul. They sustain, comfort, inspire. There is nothing like that exquisite moment when you first discover the beauty of connecting with others in celebration of larger ideals and shared wisdom. -Gordon Gee
There is a direct link between human psychology and approaching the arts. Because of this direct link, it is possible to observe and analyze how the artists feel during the process of making artworks. In that sense, I, personally put the well-known Spanish artist, who was born in the 30th of March in 1746 in a village called Fuentetodos, Francisco Goya in another category inside my mind. Juxtapositioning the psychology to brush strokes, Goya is considered an enlightenment for many artists worldwide. He is well-known because of his approach to darker colors and the catastrophic way to show on canvas. When I was in Spain, I had a chance to meet with Goya's paintings in Prado Museum which is located in Madrid. The first expression of mine when I first saw the paintings from Goya, was depression. The choices in colors, the catastrophic way the paintings have and the dark emotion which was coming from those paintings were the reason that I felt depressed and overwhelmed. On the other hand, I have to say that, those paintings made me feel excited because how Goya was approaching events from his life on canvas was so realistic. In that sense, according to me, what makes Goya that powerful and well-known globally is related to his ability to express himself on "dark matter".
The life of Francisco Goya was not perfect. The society was playing a key factor in his life and artworks parallelly. He had two main turning points in his life: getting blind after a sickness and that time's Spain's political conditions. With the blindness, Napoleon's occupation of Spain, the political actions coming from the Spanish people and the increasing level of terror in the whole country triggered Goya to use darker colors, even he was known with his colorful paintings in the palace of the royal family of Spain before. "Self-portrait with Dr. Arrieta" brings the idea that it is actually the portrait of Spain during those times, according to my perspective. This idea is working with a collaboration with Goya's tendency to have a romantic understanding on his creation. That romantic artwork contains darker colors in general, which is like the signature of Goya, naturally. The people on the background like silhouettes watching the man on the main scene suffering, the way of gestures and sense of pain create a general view of the events of those times in Spain. It is possible to see the man with a green coat's gestures that it represents how Spanish people were trying to protest the inner and external conflicts and protect the understanding of unity with determination. That makes this famous artwork of Goya a representer of the society. The combination of the usage of dark colors, facial expressions on the figures and actions contain a balance in itself which creates the sense of power cumulatively. So, with the addition of internal and general psychology, "Self-portrait with Dr. Arrieta" is having a role of being a splendid example of how psychology and approaching to arts work together as mates. That idea created another idea that even, in general, we have a distinction between "art for art's sake" and "art for society's sake", the line between them is near to be invisible. Because, for me, art is a work which contains different kinds of understandings, effects, trigger points, emotions and logic in itself. So, artworks in a cumulative way. Human is, also, a cumulative being. This makes actually the line so thin, or maybe invisible.
Information about "Self-Portrait with Dr. Arrieta" by Goya
Oil on canvas-1820
Romanticism
Minneapolis Institute of Art
The life of Francisco Goya was not perfect. The society was playing a key factor in his life and artworks parallelly. He had two main turning points in his life: getting blind after a sickness and that time's Spain's political conditions. With the blindness, Napoleon's occupation of Spain, the political actions coming from the Spanish people and the increasing level of terror in the whole country triggered Goya to use darker colors, even he was known with his colorful paintings in the palace of the royal family of Spain before. "Self-portrait with Dr. Arrieta" brings the idea that it is actually the portrait of Spain during those times, according to my perspective. This idea is working with a collaboration with Goya's tendency to have a romantic understanding on his creation. That romantic artwork contains darker colors in general, which is like the signature of Goya, naturally. The people on the background like silhouettes watching the man on the main scene suffering, the way of gestures and sense of pain create a general view of the events of those times in Spain. It is possible to see the man with a green coat's gestures that it represents how Spanish people were trying to protest the inner and external conflicts and protect the understanding of unity with determination. That makes this famous artwork of Goya a representer of the society. The combination of the usage of dark colors, facial expressions on the figures and actions contain a balance in itself which creates the sense of power cumulatively. So, with the addition of internal and general psychology, "Self-portrait with Dr. Arrieta" is having a role of being a splendid example of how psychology and approaching to arts work together as mates. That idea created another idea that even, in general, we have a distinction between "art for art's sake" and "art for society's sake", the line between them is near to be invisible. Because, for me, art is a work which contains different kinds of understandings, effects, trigger points, emotions and logic in itself. So, artworks in a cumulative way. Human is, also, a cumulative being. This makes actually the line so thin, or maybe invisible.
Information about "Self-Portrait with Dr. Arrieta" by Goya
Oil on canvas-1820
Romanticism
Minneapolis Institute of Art
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