Installation View of Los Disparates

A photograph showing three people observing five framed etchings by Francisco de Goya hanging on a plain gray museum wall. On the left, a woman holds a digital camera up to photograph an image of a figure on horseback. In the center, a man in a beanie and scarf views another print, while a partial figure is visible on the far right. The prints on the wall feature Goya’s characteristic dark, satirical style, including figures in chaotic interactions and hybrid human-animal creatures.

This image captures the reception of Francisco de Goya’s 'Los disparates' (also known as 'Proverbios' or 'Follies'), a series of cryptic, nightmarish prints created between 1815 and 1824 that critique Spanish society, the Inquisition, and human irrationality. The work reflects the artist's late-life preoccupation with the dark, irrational aspects of the human psyche during a period of political turmoil.