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vlyons

(10,252 posts) Thu May 14, 2020, 11:03 AM May 2020

Goya's Black Paintings

i cannot help but be reminded of the depravity of the Trump administration and his GOP enablers, when I look at Goya's Black Paintings

"Saturn Devouring His Son" as Trump himself

"Men Reading" as GOP Senators reading a proposed Dem bill

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Paintings#/media/File:Hombres_leyendo.jpg

"A Pilgrimage to San Isidro" as Trump's voters

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Paintings#/media/File:La_romer%C3%ADa_de_San_Isidro.jpg

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Goya's Black Paintings (Original Post) vlyons May 2020 OP

IIRC, a number of the Black Paintings were damaged when they were removed Aristus May 2020 #1

Aristus

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1. IIRC, a number of the Black Paintings were damaged when they were removed

Reply to vlyons (Original post)

Thu May 14, 2020, 11:38 AM

May 2020

from Goya's home. Some art restorers tried to re-create what was damaged in the move, but their efforts remain speculation, at best.

Still, some frighteningly evocative works of art...

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