Goya in the hypertext: multinarration and artistic motivations

Abstract

In a present so much marked by the media and formats convergence, by open data, and by a navigation through links and an infinity of contents, it is pertinent to deepen in how the most traditional cultural field –in this case, painting- is adapted to the current technologies. Goya has not lost validity, and like the rest of culture, he lives not just by the painting, the books and other analogic formats; he is a habitant from the virtual world which is increasingly more real.
In the first place, this paper approaches some principles of the hypertextual narrative applied to Francisco de Goya y Lucientes though the construction of a narration which is able to be broken in blocks linked to external (web) and internal texts, providing thousands of narrative possibilities to access to the Goya’s world and paintings, and developing a multinarration. In the second place, starting from the multinarration, we make the classification of a sample made by 14 paintings from Goya, in this categories: Painting for professional activity, Painting as historical testimony, Painting for pleasure, and Painture by need. The results show the combination of the traditional artistic commentary with the hypertextual narration construction, offering a research line pertinent and consecuent with the digital world.