GOYA’S HOBBY HORSE

The setting for my antiwar nightmare is the architectonic surround containing a burning building and horse-mounted soldiers. In the foreground are two of Francesco Goya‘s aquatint etchings from his Los Caprichos album that exposed vice and corruption in 18th and 19th-century Spain.

I combined the “Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters”, #43, 1798, and “Tail Bearers, Blasts of Wind” (“Snitches”) # 48, 1799. Below, Goya‘s Hobby Horse is looking up and screaming in horror at the scene shown above.