The Dog by Francisco de Goya

Britain's The Independent is doing an interesting Great Art Series. They recently featured this powerful and mysterious painting by Francisco de Goya simply entitled The Dog.

Tom Lubbock writes:

It's a frightful picture of dream-like helplessness and despair. It's
also a demonstration of the power of simplicity. Goya's The Dog is one
of his so-called "Black Paintings", the sequence of murals, usually
with nightmarish subjects, that the artist painted on the walls of the
Quinta del Sordo, a country house outside Madrid he occupied in the
early 1820's.

Read his full analysis here.  It's fascinating.

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