Will No One Untie Us?
“First be a magnificent artist and then you can do whatever, but the art must be first” by Francisco de Goya. Francisco de Goya has produced many different forms of art throughout his life. One in spectacular, ¿No Hay Quien Nos Desate? which translates into Will No One Untie Us? is the 75th plate out of a series of 80 prints called Los Caprichos. Los Caprichos were made by aquatint and etching in 1797 and 1798 but was published as an album later in 1799. Goya “recently developed the technique of aquatint, which makes these etchings a major achievement in the history of engraving” (Magister). In 1789, Goya became an official Court painter and painted several pictures of the Spanish Royal family. Francisco de Goya is one
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Etching is a process of the acid being used to incise the plate. They would “coat the plate first with an acid-resistant material called a ground” ;however, there are two kinds of grounds that are commonly used in etchings, which are hard and soft (“Etching and Aquatint”). Hard ground etching is where the artist draws through a hard wax that coats the plate. The lines are usually thin, wiry, and blunt at the end, while soft ground etching is where the artist draws on a piece of paper that covers a soft wax coating on the plate (“Etching and Aquatint”). After the grounding is complete the paper is lifted and it removes the wax where the pencil pressed. The lines can vary depending on which type of grounding is used on the etching. On a soft ground etching, the lines are fuzzier at the edges similar to a crayon lines. By using soft grounding, the wax can often help make imprints of other things like leaves or lace in an etching. Etching is only one technique Goya uses in his prints, aquatint is a whole new process but is similar to etching. Aquatint is another type of ground that helps with the shading, but the difference is that it is not a solid coating on the plate. Aquatints purpose is to create different tones even though it is composed of fine particles of rosin. During the process of aquatint, “the acid bites around the particles, creating tooth, or a collection of little marks in the plate that hold …show more content…
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