GOYA - Creator of horror, terror and mistery and the truth behind his macabre Black Paintings

The spanish artist Francisco de Goya (1746-1828) has a consuming hold on the imagination of Robert Hughes, the world’s foremost commentator on art and arguably the most compelling presenter around. A few years ago, as Hughes lay in a coma following a near fatal road accident, a series of powerful hallucinations plunged him into the nightmare world of Goya’s Black Paintings. Nobody knows what drove Goya to paint these dark phantoms of his mind on the walls of a farmhouse where he lived after he left Madrid, too deaf and alienated to continue life as a court painter. When Hughes recovered, he made this documentary. ************ Subscribe to wocomoCULTURE: Follow us on Facebook: ************ Hughes explores the world of Goya and gives a very personal commentary on his paintings, charting his achievements as a court painter, satirist and war reporter and finally as the topographer of the inner self, of madness, fear and despair. He gives