Goya is one of the originators of surrealism, which here stems more from the idea of mixed metaphors than the surrealism of Freud and Carl Jung. The surrealism of Goya does not stem from dreams, it stems from a critique of society. The collage aspect of his work that later became such a staple in surrealism in this case is due to plate etchings. Each etching plays directly off of a colloquial saying, meaning that you have to have experienced and grown up in Goya’s culture in order to understand it without analysis. It also is more grounded in reality than most surrealism- it has a direct relationship to everyday life, and a specific message. A lot of other surrealism tends toward lofty ideas and obscure messages, so it was nice to see something that was not that way.
