VietNamNet Bridge – Hans Guggenheim, a Spanish painting collector is about to present 46 aquatint prints of famous artist Francisco de Goya to the Vietnam Museum of Arts on October 3, 2008.

An aquatint print by Goya

The aquatint prints belong to a series of 80 aquatint prints named “The Disasters of War”, created by Francisco Goya in the 1810s, and published in 1863, 35 years after his death.

This set of aquatint prints depict scenes from the Peninsular War. The scenes are singularly disturbing, sometimes macabre in their depiction of battlefield horror, and represent an outraged conscience in the face of death and destruction.

These works will be displayed at the Vietnam Museum of Arts, 66 Nguyen Thai Hoc, Hanoi from October 3 to November 15, 2008, in an exhibition named “The Arts of War Time”.

This exhibition, organized by the Spanish and US Embassies in Hanoi, will also introduce 37 sculptural works on war by Vietnamese artist.

Francisco Jos̩ de Goya y Lucientes (March 30, 1746 РApril 16, 1828) was an Aragonese Spanish painter and printmaker. Goya was a court painter to the Spanish Crown and a chronicler of history. He has been regarded both as the last of the Old Masters and as the first of the moderns. The subversive and subjective element in his art, as well as his bold handling of paint, provided a model for the work of later generations of artists, notably Manet and Picasso.

(Source: TP)