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GOYA -Two Men Fighting

"Two Men Fighting" – after Francisco Goya
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— Jorge

This piece is taken directly from Francisco Goya’s Two Men Fighting, drawn sometime between 1812 and 1820. It’s not a reinterpretation or a loose adaptation—I followed Goya’s lines exactly, staying faithful to his hand. Every mark is his, just translated into skin.

The original was made with brush, black and gray wash, and black ink over graphite. A simple setup—but it hits hard. No distractions. No setting. Just two figures, mid-motion, locked in a raw, almost animal clash. There’s nothing soft about it. No background, no narrative—just bodies in tension, emotion right on the surface. That’s what pulled me in.

Goya’s brushwork feels fast, even reckless—like he was racing to capture something before it disappeared. It’s not clean or careful—it’s alive. You can feel the moment trying to escape him, and him refusing to let it. That urgency, that rawness—that’s what I tried to carry into the tattoo.

Some images don’t ask to be explained. They just land. They hit something deep and human. Even after 200 years, this one holds tension like it was drawn yesterday. It doesn’t feel like history—it feels like memory. Like instinct. It touches that place where violence and survival blur, where emotion becomes physical.

That’s the weight I wanted to keep. Not to replicate it exactly—but to echo what it makes you feel. Because some things don’t fade. They wait.

Jorge da Cruz