http://www.metafilter.com/tags/goya Posts tagged with 'goya' at MetaFilter. Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:05:33 -0800 Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:05:33 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/79411/The%2DOther%2DSide <a href="http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=12348">"These are like cool Magic Cards!"</a> - the <a href="http://www.thearttribune.com/Alfred-Kubin-1877-1959.html">sometimes</a> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/09/07/arts/0907-JOHN_index.html">disturbing</a> <small>(and sometimes <a href="http://www.toonpool.com/cartoons/alfred%20kubin%20zu%20ehren_15286">NSFW</a>)</small> <a href="http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A3276&page_number=1&template_id=1&sort_order=1">art</a> of <a href="http://www.alfred-kubin.com/Kubin-Werke1.html">Alfred Kubin</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.79411 Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:05:33 -0800 AlfredKubin aquatint art Austria Expressionism fantasy goya illustration strange Artw http://www.metafilter.com/29308/Bogeymen <a href="http://encina.pntic.mec.es/~agonza59/">CocoWeb</a> (<a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=http://encina.pntic.mec.es/~agonza59/">trans</a>) is a project which has assembled 516 <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=http://encina.pntic.mec.es/~agonza59/lista.htm">manifestations</a> of the Bogeyman in Latin America. The list includes the well-known Coco or Cucuy, a dark figure who makes an appearance in the art world as <a href="http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/imag/1946/00D1/0040/1946-D1-40-0003-m01.html">the subject</a> of one of Goya's <a href="http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/coll/grps/goya/goya_intro.html">Caprichos</a>. Any Hispanic child can tell you about <a href="http://www.lallorona.com/">La Llorona</a>, a grieving woman who walks in the night (familiar enough to be used in a controversial <a href="http://www.nikdaum.com/artnew/a95.htm">got milk? ad</a>). In South America they can tell you about the <a href="http://www.pantheon.org/articles/h/hombre_del_saco.html">Sack-Man</a>, on of the original bogeymen, who walks in the darkness, looking for children to throw into his sack. tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.29308 Fri, 31 Oct 2003 11:55:37 -0800 advertisements bogeyman caprichos coco cucuy goya lallorona latinamerica sackman supernatural vacapinta