Can art change your mind? Goya - The Third of May 1808 

What a powerful image truly reflecting the futility of, and the real victims of war. Your thoughts on this painting made me think and notice things I had never seen and thought before. Excellent, so glad to have found your channel.

This video is criminally under-viewed... When I was in animation school at Sheridan in Ontario, there was a class I did pretty poorly in, but would love to take again cuz in retrospect I know they were trying to get me to learn to think...but I was too young, and obstinate to see that...(it IS where I discovered James Burke and "Connections" however). Anyway, there was this one video they showed which was trying to demonstrate the power of context. They showed this Goya painting, "The Third of May 1808". In the video, they show you the image, and you're a kid, and you're just kinda sitting there, "Yeah OK, old painting". THEN they showed a short clip of these burlesque girls doing the can-can set to exciting music, then switch back to the painting. And now you're like, "OK..Where is THIS going?".....You're just perhaps bemused, or indifferent. THEN they show a film clip of real people in Africa being shot by a firing squad, then they show the painting once more...and now?... That painting hit us like a sledge-hammer to the guts.