when, at the age of 14, he was apprenticed to a local master, José Luzan, a competent although little-known painter in whose studio Goya spent four years. In 1763 the young artist went to Madrid, where he hoped to win a prize at the Academy of San Fernando. Although he did not win the desired award, he did make the acquaintance of Francisco Bayeu, an artist also from Aragón, who was working at the court in the academic manner imported to Spain by the German painter Anton Raphael Mengs. Bayeu (the
holidays with Pichot, where he discovered French Impressionism and Spanish Symbolism. He continued to spend holidays with Pichot throughout secondary school, and kept experimenting with Impressionism and Symbolism. He then attended the Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid in 1921, but was expelled in 1926 mainly because of his arrogance and rebellious actions. During this time he experimented with many different styles, such as Cubism, Futurism, Neo-Classicism, and many more. Soon after