The Disasters of War
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With the early 19th century Disasters of War, Goya continued a tradition set in motion by French 17th artist Jacques Callot with his The Miseries and Disasters of War, both of them criticizing the horrors of war in their art
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In the 1810s, Goya created a set of aquatint prints titled The Disasters of War (Los desastres de la guerra) which depict scenes from the Peninsular War. The scenes are singularly disturbing, sometimes macabre in their depiction of battlefield horror, and represent an outraged conscience in the face of death and destruction. The prints were not published until 1863, 35 years after Goya's death.
Some of the prints have been "remixed" by the Chapman Brothers in their 2003 piece Insult to Injury.
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See also
- War, disaster
- Great Deeds Against the Dead by the Chapmans
- The Miseries and Disasters of War by Callot
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