Like one of his witches, the old Goya flies over the open air of the Disparates, to plunge, like the half-sunken dog of the Black Paintings, into that swamp of reality from which we can only emerge if we sink into it. But first Goya had to be shipwrecked in silence for silence to reveal itself to him. He had to witness the atrocious violence of war, injustice and extreme suffering.
xtreme suffering. It was then that he began to paint what can no longer be painted because it exceeds the limits of representation, like an announcement of the invisible disaster. This essay, illustrated with Goya's Disparates, is situated between philosophy, aesthetic theory and literary studies, and will help the reader to immerse himself in the rich complexities of the thought of one of the most brilliant artists in the history of art.
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