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Goya : Awakened in a Dream
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Product Details
- Starring: Jan Filips, David Reale, Cedric Smith, Robert Bockstael, Jaclyn Blumas
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- Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
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- Binding: VHS Tape
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- Director: Shannon Lawson
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- EAN: 9781894449090
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- Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Digital Sound, Dolby, Full length, Full Screen, Surround Sound, NTSC
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- ISBN: 1894449096
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- Label: Repnet
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- Manufacturer: Repnet
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- Number of Items: 1
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- Product Group: Video
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- Publisher: Repnet
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- Release Date: 2000-04-01
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- Studio: Repnet
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- Title: Goya : Awakened in a Dream
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- UPC: 699359200430
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Product Description: Directed by Richard Mozer, Goya: Awakened in a Dream is a powerful portrait of the enigmatic artist who in his old age maintained a youthful rebelliousness at heart. Goya, one of Spain's greatest painters, created a wide and varied range of work. He was at times a painter, a cartoonist, a portrait artist and a satirist. His Caprices were the first social, political, moral and religious satires ever created, oddly at the same time that Goya painted his most conventional portraits, including religious works for churches. Goya went on to defy the king and the inquisition, abandoning the royal court in favour of a simple life in the countryside. His landmark Black Paintings bridged the gap between traditional court portraiture to modern, personal interpretive works. "The challenge of this film was to do justice to Goya's art which can be very dark and contemplative while conveying the mystery and wonder of his paintings to children who might otherwise find his work a little scary," revealed director Richard Mozer. Created and produced by David Devine and Richard Mozer from a screenplay by award-winning playwright and screenwriter Michael Maclennan, Goya: Awakened in a Dream was shot in Valtice in southern Moravia in the Czech Republic. Moravia is home to over 80 castles and palaces built since the turn of the 15th century and is also where several of Devine Entertaimment's Composers Specials were filmed. The castle in Goya: Awakened in a Dream was built by an Italian architect and by Italian labourers. It is beautiful and strikingly similar to the palace in Madrid. Goya become a court painter rather late in life, at the age of 43. He immediately added the "de" in front of his name to suggest aristocratic kinship. From then on, his future was assured, and he rose to even higher eminence. What Goya enjoyed the most was the study of people, showing them at their best and worst moments. He needed to make sense of life as it unfolded and thus he always had a crayon and notebook within reach. Goya seemed to have an endless capacity for joy. Even during the bleakest periods of his life, he continued to capture the colour of life and never lost his sense of humour. One of the saddest realities of his life is that though his wife gave birth to 12 children, only one survived. In his productive stretches, he worked with incredible speed, capturing ideas and visions. Without Leocadia, he might have even forgotten to eat.
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Customer Reviews
Well written and acted, and discussion provoking
I have been using this video for several years with high school design students. They respond well to it, and it is a good springboard for class discussions. I follow this in the next class period with a slide lecture on Goya's life and the purposes his art served at different stages, including: sports reporting (for example, "Unfortunate Incident in the First Row"); decorative and practical (the tapestry cartoons); social criticism with Enlightenment values (The Caprices); Political power and criticism (Portrait of King Carlos IV and family); Portraiture--and veiled love note (Duchess of Alba); Propaganda--in a GOOD sense (The Third of May, 1808); a personal thank-you note (Dr. Arietta); psychological self-examination and catharsis (The Black Paintings); even sexual excitation (both the Clothed and Nude Majas).
I believe the students respond better to my slide lecture because they have first gotten to know Goya as a flesh and blood human being through this excellent film. I must have watched it at least twenty times in the last seven years, and can find no significant fault with it.
This year I used it as the beginning of a unit on drawing from observation, and Goya's advice to Rosarita was exactly what I want the students to get: (slightly paraphrased) "You've drawn what you think a tree is like; you must learn to see, and to draw a tree it as it really is."
I just wish it was available on DVD!
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An Artist and a Child
This is the story of the great painter Goya, and Rosarita, a poor child who dreams of 'the art of strokes', while her canvas is the earth, and her finger the only sketch.
Goya moves from the King's Court to a rustic life, so that he can paint in peace and not worry about what theme in his painting will offend the church.
When Rosarita chalks out a picture of him as a wicked man, he is impressed by her talent ,but realises that she needs help in 'seeing' more than just two eyes can see, to be a good painter.
He then appoints Rosa's mother as the housekeeper giving them a roof. While he is doing paintings in his own style, he also teaches Rosa to finetune her skills and lets Rosa do an ivory painting. She does the ivory more justice than expected from a child.
Two extremes in relation to parents, children and art can be seen. Goya's son is a failure at art. Rosa's mother believes art's no good to earn bread.The son's dedication for father, trying to get him out of Inquisition, have been well brought out.
Towards the end, an important point is driven home, that it is scary to express your innermost fears, but the result will relieve you, for having found the expression. After all, what good is art if you cannot communicate your deep felt emotions.
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