Janis Tomlinson.
JANIS TOMLINSON
GOYA: A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST (2020)
Francisco Goya (born 1746) is regarded as one of the leading Spanish painters working at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. Goya studied painting from the age of fourteen, and developed a practice painting portraits for the aristocracy. In 1786 he was appointed as court painter to the Spanish royal family. Following his loss of hearing in 1793 his paintings took on a much darker character, becoming concerned wth political and religious corruption, witches, and fantastic creatures. His later painters were even darker in spirit.
The New Yorker wrote of Tomlinson’s Goya biography: Goya: ‘A Portrait of the Artist [is] a newly informed chance to reflect on an artist of enigmatic mind and permanent significance. . . . Tomlinson addresses, with refreshing clarity, a chronic question of just how independent, not to say subversive, Goya was of the powers that employed him. . . . She admirably keeps the mysteries of Goya's character distinct from its self-serving machinations.’
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Janis Tomlinson is a writer and lecturer who is an internationally recognised authority on the painter Francisco Goya. In addition to this biography of Goya, she has written essays and curated exhibitions and his work and that of his contemporaries. After graduating from McGill University she took her MA and PhD at the University of Pennsylvania.
