Today I've visited a fabulous expo dedicated to Fransisco Goya and his impact on whole century of the european art-scene. It's really incomprehensible and almost mystical how the art everytime returns to itself and retraces its own roots. The expo explores an influnce of Goyas' portraits wich anticipated the birth of romantic portraits of Declaroix and David, the vision of the real human with a turbulent soul, feelings and thoughts. Throughout the expo we'll arrive towards Francis Bacon portaraits, Arnold Schoenberg selfportraits and Frank Auerbach and we really see a guiding red line that unites all that masterpieces with a Goya's touch of sensibility, irony and grotesque. I post some of his gravure from a Desperates series, where he tries to depict the main humanbeing's worries, fears and some obscene sides of life, depicting them he's sure to dominate them. The other pic I post is A Picasso portrait which impressed me too much. It's presence at the expo due to a sensible and almost romantic approach to a portrait was so refreshing!.. A Picasso being already in cubist group decides to try himself in a classical portrait depicting "Mujer con mantilla" - a portrait of a woman with the characteristal spanish traits in a typical spanish clothes. He uses a pointilism technics and a concept of non-finished reasoning this way on an essence of art. It's a Picasso from an absolutely another point of view.
So, I'd say that it's worth seeing 100%)