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GOYA’NIN RÜYASI: AKLIN UYKUSU CANAVARLAR ÜRETİR
GOYA’S DREAM: THE SLEEP OF MIND PRODUCES MONSTERS

Author(s): Serhat Soyşekerci
Subject(s): Visual Arts, 18th Century, 19th Century, History of Art
Published by: Sanat ve Dil Araştırmaları Enstitüsü
Keywords: Francisco Goya; Caprichos; Enlightenment; Dream; Nightmare;

Summary/Abstract: The dreams are irregular, uncontent, disconnected from the ground, gloomy and darkness, besides of being vaguely. In the universal sense almost every human dreams, a dark side of dreams has a special significance for the artist in terms of art and style. The reason for this is that the darkness side of dreams is often created by a form of nightmare filled with distorted, fantastic, grotesque and allegorical images. This article focuses on the 43 rd pieces out of 80 piece engraving series Los Caprichos by Spanish painter Goya. In this engraving, the artist is not only the absurd style of demons, fairies, monsters and the incarnation of Satan, the sensual dreams of the monks can’t restrain depicts in the true ways. This article scrutinizes a surreal format of Goya’s dream come together in an absurd and realistic scene.

  • Issue Year: 7/2018
  • Issue No: 51
  • Page Range: 1341-1348
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Turkish