I mean I don't like the director's over-emphasis on Goya's obsession with Innes' beauty, or Goya's disgusted reaction when he mistakenly thinks he's a prostitute. It is natural for artists to admire beauty, but Goya's pattern is far more than these. What he pursues is truth. He keenly penetrates everything with a contemplative eye, and portrays the truth without any pretense.
A classicist rebel, in the context of the changing wars in France and Spain, when the classicist painters of the period borrowed ancient heroic themes or metaphors to depict such themes, he directly used "Madrid 3 May 1808". It depicts the massacre of Spanish patriots by the French army.
His paintings directly satirize religion and allude to government cartoons, greedy monks, thieves, robbery, midwives, all drawn by him as devils, I think Goya's eyes are not only fanatical about pure beauty, he is more Experience those ugly moments about human nature and the nature of the times. He looks at all kinds of things happening in the world from the perspective of God, which makes people feel a kind of piety in front of his paintings.
As a court painter, Goya's brushstrokes are still straightforward and true, without the slightest beautification, which can be seen in paintings such as "Charles IV". Of course, the scenes of painting horses in the movie are also mentioned, but I really don’t like Goya’s character performance in these scenes. He seems to be negligent and forgets to paint beautiful people, but in fact, not deliberately beautifying court life has always been Goya’s painting principle.
I was first struck by Goya precisely because of his two most famous paintings of Maya in Nude Maya in Clothes. Previous painters have tried their best to portray nude women as perfect as possible. Every frown, smile, and every move revealed the grace of a Virgin, but seeing Goya's painting makes people laugh, because he seems to be looking at this from a man's point of view very candidly. woman. The appearance of the woman wrapped in gauze and without clothes is so ordinary, but it reveals a natural beauty and a breath of life. There was no intention in her expression. It's like a cameraman can ask a model to pose at a certain angle but we all know that the most inspirational photos are captured by accident.
The director used Goya as a clue, but his understanding of Goya was not in place, so I personally don't think this film can be called a biography. To a certain extent, the soul of Goya is actually very bluntly implicated in several characters and placed in a grand background to let them earn the audience's sigh.
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