Art is the Solution

Y no hai Remedio Source: Khan Academy Yesterday, I discussed Pablo Picasso’s Cat Catching a Bird , a painting that represents the torments of war. Picasso painted in response to the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939; however, more than one hundred years earlier the great Spanish artist Francisco Goya tackled the same subject matter in response to a different conflict: the Peninsular War. Goya has often been referred to as a painter of the Enlightenment (and if you’re wondering where else you’ve heard that, I probably said it last week). And, while the Enlightenment movement clearly underpins his entire oeuvre , his catalog is much broader, from both a stylistic and thematic perspective. Y no hai Remedio —which translates to And It Can’t be Helped or literally And there is no Remedy—is darker and more sinister than Goya’s earlier work; however, like his Caprichos series it also represents a blistering criticism of contemporary Spanish life. Y no hai Remedio comes from The Disasters o...