Goya - Crazy like a Genius 

 The narrator, Robert Hughes, started appreciating the work of Goya through a near death experience. Being hospitalized from a car crash he realized that the idealization that we create of recovery with peaceful angels and bright lights and beautiful wholesome vibes is no more than just an idealization. The truth is much darker, uncertain, mysterious and cruel, much like Francisco de Goya's art.

Madrid was an important place for Goya work wise. It was where he created most of his artwork and where a great amount of it stayed till this day exposed. It was there than he practiced and learned how to create art that would appeal to the commissioner. 

In 1792 he felt extremely hill which lead to his loss of hearing. This forever changed the painter which had a very vivid and economically comfortable life to a depressive permanent silence that would withdraw his patience to follow the design orders of his previous commissioners. His work became immediately much darker, smaller and the theme was much more related to the demons inside him. These themes were about madhouses, prison, extreme poorness, the macabre and sexual, but the most prevailing and dark theme was the magical dark witchery. 

This became the most famous and most interesting part of his artistic career as he shifted to a more experimental and modern way. My favorite pieces from Goya were without a doubt "Los Caprichos".
The themes were interesting, satirical and beautiful.

Highlights

Art: 

La Romeria San Ísidro, Francisco de Goya, 1823;

Goya and his Women- Exposition, 2002;

Los Caprichos, Francisco de Goya 1799;

Quotes: 

"He feeds of popular culture but he isn't a man of the people."

"I can stand on my feet, but i don't know if my head is on my shoulders,"

"I think that there were things moving through him, forces moving through him, and, through his art he controlled them."