Goya Artwork Recreation

This image is intended to reproduce the style of the late 18th century and early 19th century Spanish romantic painter Francisco Goya. Originally the personal painter to and for the royal family of his time period, Goya was thrown into a period of darkness when the Franco-Spanish war broke out, which stayed with the artist until his death. After the war concluded, Goya became deaf of the ear and removed himself from society, living in a cabin on the outskirts of civilization, in which he painted on the walls in his new dark, macabre style that he had adopted. This piece here is a replication of his style at this point in his life, as it holds many of the same colors and general color style that his works at the time did. For comparison, his famous work "Saturn Devouring His Son" is shown below the piece that I created. Notice the similar color and paint blending styles: the actual piece below holds no color but dark brown to red, exactly as mine above, which holds no color save for varying values of brown. Another prime comparison between the two pieces is the heavy reliance and utilization of black as both emphasis and space filling: the black of the trees and the bats of my piece above and the black of Saturn and the background in Goya's piece below. Another way in which my piece is reflective of the styles utilized by Goya is through the general tone/mood of the artwork, which is somber and macabre. The below image is of the Roman Titan Saturn devouring his son (either Pluto or Neptune) upon learning of the prophecy that his sons would usurp him. The image shows signs of a grotesque giant with contorted features and an odd shaped body devouring another human-shaped being. This piece is, for lack of a better term, sp00ky. My piece holds the general idea through its imagery as well. The bottom third of the image is a desolate and destroyed wasteland of what used to be a habitable field, but now ominous smoke rises from it and the branches of trees or bushes lay shattered, bent, gnarled, charred. Above this is a foreboding forest scene, with tall, dark trees shrouding the land around them in darkness as smoke rises from behind them. A swarm of bats are birthed from the darkness and appear to be flying directly towards the viewer. After effects added to the image give it the illusion of being painting using- well, paints, upon a canvassed surface. This gives it a similar visual appearance to what he once actually used to paint upon.