Exhibition ‘Goya: Light and Shadows’ Opened

On October 22, the exhibition titled ‘Goya: Light and Shadows’ opened at the National Museum of Western Art (until January 29, 2012). It featured the artistic career of Goya, Spain’s foremost painter, through 123 works and documents, which included 72 items from the Museo del Prado, such as the oil painting titled ‘La maja vestide (E: The Clothed Maja)’ alongside prints and letters. It consisted of fourteen chapters: I ‘Kaku aru watashi – Goya no jigazō (This is Me: Goya’s Self-Portraits)’; II ‘Sōi to jissen (Originality and Practice)’; III ‘Uso to musessō (Lies and Licentiousness)’; IV ‘Giga, yume, kimagure (Satire, Dreams, and Whimsy)’; V ‘Roba no shū: Gudon na mono tachi (The Donkeys: The Stupid Ones)’; VI ‘Mamono no mure (The Horde of Monsters)’; VII ‘Kokuō fusai ika, boku o shiranai hito wa inai (The King and Queen, and All Who Know Me)’; VIII ‘Hisan na nariyuki (The Tragic Outcome)’; IX ‘Fuun naru saiten (The Unfortunate Festival)’; X ‘Akumu (Nightmares)’; XI ‘Shinjin to danzai (Faith and Condemnation)’; XII ‘Yami no naka no shōki (Sanity in Darkness)’; XIII ‘Kikai na gūwa (A Strange Fable)’; and XIV ‘Itsuraku to bōryoku (Pleasure and Violence)’. The exhibition traced the work of artist who cast a profound gaze upon society and his own inner world during the turbulent period spanning the late eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries. (Japanese)