THE BLACK PAINTINGS
The Black Paintings alludes to a group of fourteen murals painted by Francisco Goya on the walls of his home, most likely between 1819 and 1823. The collection of murals are referred to as The Black Paintings, or Pinturas Negras in Spanish, because of their dark near prophetic themes. The murals depict an intensely bleak and nightmarish outlook on mankind, an eerie and awful resonance with our modern world. The Black Paintings here represent the fourteen shootings in the United States that have had the largest death tolls. Each image was chosen by its google ranking, appearing first when searching for each event. The color of the image was then averaged. Each flash represents each life lost.
This is the first iteration of this work.
The Black Paintings alludes to a group of fourteen murals painted by Francisco Goya on the walls of his home, most likely between 1819 and 1823. The collection of murals are referred to as The Black Paintings, or Pinturas Negras in Spanish, because of their dark near prophetic themes. The murals depict an intensely bleak and nightmarish outlook on mankind, an eerie and awful resonance with our modern world. The Black Paintings here represent the fourteen shootings in the United States that have had the largest death tolls. Each image was chosen by its google ranking, appearing first when searching for each event. The color of the image was then averaged. Each flash represents each life lost.
This is the first iteration of this work.