Los caprichos

Human beings are more complicated than that, but isolation, illness, and an increasingly troubled political world do coincide with a darker, more critical turn in his art.

And in 1789, he published a print series called Los Caprichos, 80 prints filled with superstition, hypocrisy, ignorance, vanity, corruption, and some truly excellent monsters.

The most famous image is The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters.

A man has collapsed asleep at his desk.