Samantha Rippner Essay

Derived from the research for the largest Goya art exhibition in North America in a quarter-century, this book takes a fresh look at one of the greatest artists in history by examining the fertile territory between the two poles that defined the range of his boundlessly creative personality.

Derived from the research for the largest Goya art exhibition in North America in a quarter-century, this book takes a fresh look at one of the greatest artists in history by examining the fertile territory between the two poles that defined the range of his boundlessly creative personality.

Dines prints are rooted in the spontaneous, gestural aesthetic of American Abstract Expressionism.

Intensely physical in execution, they celebrate the artists touch.

Best known for his monumental images of bathrobes, tools and hearts that became icons of Pop art during the 1960s and 70s, Jim Dine remains one of the most inventive and prolific printmakers of our time.

His prints currently number some 1,000 items, and at age 75, he continues to produce new works with remarkable zest and boundless energy.

Goya was court painter to the Spanish Crown, and famously documented the Peninsular War (18071814) between France and Spain in his harrowing Disasters of War series.

An important bridge to the modernist era, Goya's oeuvre provided a crucial precedent for artists such as Manet, Picasso and Francis Bacon.

Some 160 lush full-color images, along with text based on conversations between the artist and MFA curator Clifford S.

Ackley, offer an intimate look into Dines deeply personal approach to his favorite subject matter.

Included here are early drawings by well-known artists Vincent van Gogh and Bart van der Leck, as well as new discoveries from Jan Toorop, Theo Nieuwenhuis, Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita, Theo Hoytema, G. This book does just that, presenting a comprehensive and integrated view of Goya's most important paintings, prints, and drawings through the themes and imagery that continually challenged or preoccupied the artist.

They reveal how he strove relentlessly to understand and describe human behavior and emotional states, even at their most orderly or disorderly extremes, in elegant and incisive portraits, dramatic and monumental history paintings, and series of prints and drawings of a satirical, disturbing and surreal nature.