Goya: Crazy Like a Genius

Goya: Crazy Like a Genius

75 mins | Documentary | March 2, 2002

Join art historian Robert Hughes for a fascinating journey into the life of Spanish painter Francisco Goya. Using the artist's works as the benchmarks in this biographical profile, Hughes follows Goya from his role as painter to the royal court through his maturity as a war reporter and into his troubled final years. Hughes reveals how the upheaval of Goya's life can be traced through his paintings that range from the fanciful to the insane.

Goya: Crazy Like a Genius

75 mins | Documentary | March 2, 2002

Goya: Crazy Like a Genius
Join art historian Robert Hughes for a fascinating journey into the life of Spanish painter Francisco Goya. Using the artist's works as the benchmarks in this biographical profile, Hughes follows Goya from his role as painter to the royal court through his maturity as a war reporter and into his troubled final years. Hughes reveals how the upheaval of Goya's life can be traced through his paintings that range from the fanciful to the insane.
Producers BBC Arts, BBC Four, Oxford Film and Television
Original title Goya: Crazy Like a Genius
Directors Ian MacMillan
Writers Robert Hughes

Cast

Robert Hughes

as Self / Presenter

Leon Golub

as Self