Metaphorical Artistic Metaphor

Goya was a great realist painter in Spain at the end of the18th century in the early19th century, as a court painter, he enjoyed the palace of preferential treatment in spain, but he utilized painting as a weapon against the society, include the court、aristocrat church. Goya’s paintings reflected the reality of the social, involving the various social stratas and all aspects of life, whether for shouting、critical or sympathy, Goya could let visitors see the infinite strength behind his metaphorical paintings. Goya’s painting style not only reflected the characteristics of the times, but also beyond the age, at the same time, his painting style laid a solid foundation for the diversity of painting."Metaphorical" was one of the important characteristics of Goya’spainting style, his Metaphor picture reflected farmers life、social darkness、cruelty and revolutionary struggle of the church. The formation of Goya’s Metaphor picture included two aspects:inside and outside, the dominated factor was outside aspect, Goya lived in the social transformation period,the country’s crisis touched Goya’s every nerve,so he picked up the brushes to start a fight like other insight people. The authoritarian of tyrant、the brutal of church made Goya have to choose a way of setting, so metaphor became his talisman, Goya used lots of symbol and metaphor, his painting contained the profound connotation. Goya’s life and his works were closely related to the age, his works mainly included two aspects:challenged kingship and the magisterium;reflected the struggle、praised the people.Goya’s typically creation method of "metaphorical" was unique in the history of art, this article mainly based on theory of metaphor to research Goya’s works, the article was full of metaphor theory, both the romantic and realistic, or to be a part of the westen modern art, you could find the painting characteristics of Goya, therefore, the foothold of this article was to demonstrate the metaphorical characteristics and influence of Goya.The research of Goya’s metaphor painting not only helps us to understand the development of Spai、understand Goya, more important is to make us understand the art tention of metaphor and the history、 artistic value of Goya’s metaphorical.