Goya's other side

During my inquest of the artist Goya, I have come across a lot of interesting art which I have shared with readers in previous posts. In previous posts I have shown Goya’s dark side and his beliefs on humanity and what it has become. But Goya was not always a dark being bent on showing the bad deeds of humans; he was actually just a normal court painter. In fact he was so good that royalty showed great respect towards him and his artistic ability. Goya began his career at the Royal Academy of Fine Art in which he designed 42 patterns to decorate the bare walls of El Escorial and the Palacio Real de El Pardo. These were newly built residences of Spanish monarchs. They were immediately impressed by his work and that was how his connection to royalty began. Royalty such as the Count of Floridablanca appointed Goya to paint his portrait. Goya gained connections with lots of royalty such as Crown Prince Don Luis, Duke and Duchess of Osuna, Charles III, Charles IV, and Ferdinand VII. He was appointed First Court Painter and he painted many royal portraits and family portraits. For instance, on of his greatest portraits is titled, The Family of Charles IV and is one of his greatest paintings of all time. It looks so realistic and it is a great piece of art. Although it really has no deeper meaning besides to please Charles IV it still looks great. For all that hard work Goya was not given enough credit. Charles IV and his wife hardly showed any enthusiasm for his work, but Goya did not care as long as he got to paint what he really wanted to.