Help!!!!! can you tell me what you think this sentence means, it make absolutely no sense to me.?

Question

my teacher wants me to do a project on goya and told me that i am amart enough to figure out what she meant by this, but several people i have asked have no idea what this sentence means can u polease help me find out what i'm suppose to be researching?
the sentence is:
hitsorical reference...artistic movement of the time...how artistic style did or did not represent historical norm.
(yes, the dots and everything are exactly like the she gave it to me alls i know is that it's suppose to be about goya, it's not the artistic movements, i'm not suppoise tell the meaning of the pictures, or how the picture do or not fit in w/ the style of his time if u can help me i will be extremely grateful to u)

Answer 1

Goya is a painter and could also refer to a style of painting.

The sentence isn't a sentence . . it's more of a rough outline . . .

Your teacher wants you to talk about:

- Historical reference . . .what goya refers to in history.

- Artistic movement of the time - what time in history is it, what were the characteristics of the style.

- During it's time, was the style similar or different to other styles at the time . .and how was it similar or different.

Answer 2

Art teachers aren't necessarily the greatest people at comunicating. Do this. Describe the artistic movement during the time of Goya's influence. Then discuss how that artistic style did or did not represent the societal norm of that historical period. In the introduction of your paper, state what you are doing exactly as written above, then do what you just said you were going to. Use Plain English with a few buzz words, be complete, offer your personal opinion, and you'll probably get a 'A' unless the teacher has an axe to grind.

Answer 3

Well, I really don't like the way that is worded. But what i think she/he is looking for is for you to explain how Goya's work compared to the artistic movement of his time. Did he represent the historical norm? Did his work have a historical refrence? How?

Answer 4

Hola Ducky!!! As I said, your evil teacher may be saying that she wants you to compare Goya to the other artists of the time, or that she wants you to talk about how Goya affected the future of art or something like that.

Answer 5

I saw a great collection of Goya's etchings last year (maybe the year before? can't remember) in Europe. He always had a surreal side, and drew scenes from everyday life with a dark side (don't put that in your essay! -- it was just my loose impression of his drawings). For example, he drew a picture I remember quite clearly of strange monsters riding on a broomstick and the caption read something along the lines of -- 'It is two in the morning. If it were broad daylight, someone would do something about them, but now they ride free.' It really summarized those weird noises you might hear from the street late at night, but you don't look outside to see what is going on out there. He did a lot of drawings of daily life, and added fantastic elements.

But the key turning point in his work was his 'disasters of war' series. He did a series of drawings showing rapes, deaths and atrocities that occurred during the peninsular war when Napoleon tried to subjugate Portugal by passing through Spain -Goya drew what happened in Spain.

http://www.napoleonguide.com/campaign_peninwar.htm

This is what you should focus on in your project. You can talk about how different these gut-wrenching and uncompromising images of modern violence contrast with other painters from the Romantic period. At this time, writers and artists took a turn toward the gothic (think Byron, Shelley, etc.); rent the film 'Gothic' for a quick grasp of the period:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091142/

So you can place Goya in this Romantic context:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Romantic_painters
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanticism

The difference is that Goya's drawings of war were no longer surreal - they were REAL. Surreal fantasy became a terrible reality; in fact, reality became worse than the worst nightmares the poets and painters could dream up.

You can of course also draw a connection from Goya's depiction of these scenes and our current world conflicts that we see every night on our television sets, not to mention the violence we see on TV and in movies -- that is, Goya foresaw the future, when horrific violence would become commonplace. In other words, he was showing the new 'norm,' about 150 years before it became the new norm. These are shocking images, but we are not now really shocked by them -- I think that is what your teacher is pushing you to get at, because it tells you something about what art does to its audience (that is, it makes the audience conscious of something it always knew but never really faced -- but then the art also desensitizes the audience to that shocking awareness and what once shocked us becomes boring) -- and it is a comment on today's world at the same time.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2003/04/30/bachap30.xml

Just google 'Goya war' and you will get tonnes of info. Good luck, your teacher has given you an interesting, albeit poorly-worded assignment.

Answer 6

Well, it's simple. She was probably elluding to the fact Francisco do Goya's art style wasn't similar to other artists who were living at the same time as him. That'd be my guess and I don't even know anything about Goya. I suggest you look it up and then do an essay about how he was or wasn't like his contemporaries.

Answer 7

she wants to know how goya fit in with the historical artist at the time, was he like all the rest, or was he a prodigy, was he different and what influence did his difference have on the time he lived, did the society at the time like it or did they feel he was not part of the time period and shunned ?

Answer 8

If it is about the Spanish painter Goya. Go to the following webpage.

I would put in your own words about what you read about him. You can search for painters in his career time. Then tell how they differ from the other paintings/painters of that time.

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/goya/

Answer 9

What was going on politically, economically, etc. in the time of Goya (historical reference)?

What was "the norm" in art of the period (both leading into the time before Goya, and of his time)?

What was unique about Goya's style, and did that match, the norms in art of his period? (he did lampoon the aristocracy of his time...very dangerous in his period!)

Hope that helps!

Answer 10

Goya was a famous painter who was ahead of his time. Go to this website and it will explain about his paintings and how it changed the painting world
www.cyberspain.com/passion/goya.htm

Good luck with your research!