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| Francisco Goya The Burial of the Sardine, 1816, oil on wood, 82,5 x52 cm, Museo de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid |
I love Carnival . I think it's a special time of year and, apart from those that are known carnivals, those attractions so to speak, there is a world behind this event, which has lost many of its features.
not is a religious holiday, it is as charged remained without implications to some church or some guru. It 's simple topsy-turvy world, where it is lawful to go crazy.
The carnival theme was addressed by a few artists, mostly in engravings. Goya has been prolific in this. "The Follies" may be a clear example, humanized animals, pregnant men, bearded ladies and teasing of the aristocracy and high bourgeoisie.
The funeral of the sardine of oil is tied to this time of year. Is represented one of Madrid's most important traditions. This is a funeral procession , clearly taken from a series of comic masks, which ends with the burial of the sardine. This however is pilchard shaped with pork meat , typical food of the Carnival, while for the counterparty, the fish is eaten during Lent. A game of reversals, the essence of the period.
sardine there is no trace in the painting. There remains only the parade drunk, tilted, no stability, but that certainly shows a mobility in the background, it becomes increasingly blurred.
The masks are frightening: devils and skulls exorcise the fear of death, the fear of temptation which so far has been lawful, but the next day, with the beginning of Lent, it becomes sin.
A bear hunter and a sprout on the left framework and also here one has to do with the carnival traditions, can also be found in Italy.
Goya's leadership lies in the representation of a disorderly crowd , which has a composition clarified by tradition, but Starting invents its engravings, from sketches drawn around the city.
There is only a sketch of the same English on the same subject, however, where the protagonists are men who win the carnival.
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