Francisco de Goya

associated with the Spanish government began to acknowledge his significance toward the end of the century.

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Francisco de Goya y Lucientes was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker who lived from 30th of March 1746 to 16th of April 1828 (his Spanish name was Francisco Xose de Goya y Lucientes).

He is regarded as the most significant Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Painters of the 19th and 20th century were affected by his paintings, drawings, and engravings, which were important historical upheavals of the time.

Goya is frequently referred to as the first modernist and the final Old Master. Spanish masters Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dal were influenced by Goya's Black Paintings and Los caprichos at the beginning of the 20th century.

American postmodern painters of the 21st century like Michael Zansky and Bradley Rubenstein are influenced by Goya's Black Paintings and "The Dream of Reason Produces Monsters"

(1796-98). Goya's iconography is used in Zanksy's "Giants and Dwarf Series" of large-scale paintings and wood carvings from 1990 to 2002. The Burial of the Sardine, a book by Spanish novelist Fernando Arrabal, was influenced by the Goya illustration.

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