“Francisco Goya through ‘Dos de Mayo’ preserved the memory of death in the streets of Madrid. His skepticism is more sarcastic, his protest is more passionate, his smile is more furious than to anyone who was speaking trough art before him. His paintings are a revelation of the horrible world of tyranny and oppression of a corrupt and decadent society,” [my translation from Serbo-Croatian] wrote Oto Bihalji Merin. In his book he paired the Goya paintings with photographs from the Spanish civil war as a document of “Los desastres de la guerra” – the disasters of the war.
Against people (Los caprichos / Francisco Franco)
What courage! (What courage! / Dolores Ibárruri, La Pasionaria)
Women from the people (Christ in the House of Martha and Mary – Velázquez / Martha and Mary – refugees, 1937)
The Third of May ( The Third of May 1808 / The militia attack 1936)