By Florence Millioud Henriques (la Tribune de Genève).
Goya? The painter to be seen in Switzerland at the moment in the exhibition-event signed by the Fondation Beyeler, we readily rank him among those indestructible classics of art history that we reverently come across in the great museums of the world. On his land, in Spain, the artist who duplicates himself, without any schizophrenia, both a portrait painter of the powerful and a painter of the vile, the mad and other anonymous, has carved out a very glamorous statue for himself that rewards the stars of the 7th arrondissement. art in equivalent of Caesar or Oscar.
What would the painter think of two slices of salmon which take themselves for majesties on canvas, the witness of the fools wandering in their asylum, the observer of the coquettes who sell their charms on the balcony?
No doubt he would see a closeness to this art of reading his own time, a same sensitivity!
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