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Francisco de Goya y Lucientes. Aragonese painter. 1746 -1828 recorded series "The bullfighting"

Corrida.

Palenque of the Moors made donkeys, to defend embolado bull.

way in which the old bulls in the field hunting.

Another way to hunt on foot.

Car Combat harnessed two mules.

Toro harassed by dogs.

JOSE MANUEL 24/05/2008 MATILLA
GOYA AND THE CRITICAL VIEW bullfighting.


the end of his life in exile in Bordeaux, Goya said his friend Leandro Fernández de Moratinos "had fought in his time." From this and other references as well as his paintings and prints, has been forming a topical image the artist has become a staunch fan of the bulls. Of all his work, the series of 33 prints of bullfighting, published in 1816, is the best expression of his vision the world of bullfighting. And he did it with such intensity that allows us to raise many questions about his true feelings for the party after the War of Independence. Goya uses a subject that at first glance may look for recreation, but a closer look leads us to understand the perspective of violence, cruelty and death, placing them in the field of critical and aesthetic disasters of war. Goya thus echoed the debate over the legitimacy of bullfighting was in the midst of the enlightened society, where some of the leading intellectuals of the time, like Jovellanos and Vargas Ponce, had put into question, reaching to promote prohibition.
In Bullfighting this context can be understood as a sign critical of the violence inherent to human beings through irrational confrontation with the bull, whose final Aboca not his death but that of the bullfighter. No wonder the series ends with the tragic death of Pepe-Hillo. Bullfighting are not sympathy with the bull, but respect the man, who isolated the reason, he faces the danger recklessly.
The dramatic tension in these works, coupled with its exceptional formal development, the icon becomes a drama that is the essence of bullfighting from the look of Goya's great and independent.
José Manuel Matilla is head of the Department of Prints and Drawings from the Prado Museum.



"hamstrung by the rabble with spears, crescents, flags and other weapons." The hamstrings was a very cruel and horrible http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1390280518320&ref=mf practice that cut the legs from behind the calf live to kill him in a more comfortable or just for fun. "
NOTE: This video is pictures of the bull, but a paper by Don Pablo de Lora, related to the subject of the abolition of bullfighting in the Parliament, in which he mentions this cruel practice.

"The Moors established in Spain, regardless of the superstitions of his Koran, took this game and art, and throw a bull in the field. "

Bravo bull.