03-01-2015 10:00 via theguardian.com

My highlight: Goya

Why 2015 is the year finally to decide whether Goya was high-minded or simply fascinated by evilCritics aren’t supposed to admit they are – in shrink parlance – “conflicted”. But with many great artists, we can’t definitively say that their grandeur is not grossness, their profundity superficiality. The uncertainty principle was formulated brilliantly in 1759, when Sir Joshua Reynolds said of Michelangelo: “I have seen figures by him of which it was very difficult to determine whet
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