EXECUTION: In works like The Third of May , Goya captured the horror of war
Deep in the Prado Museum's massive new Goya exhibition hangs a muted watercolor titled One Can't Look . Completed some time in the years before 1815, it depicts a prisoner, his torso draped in cloth, with ropes dangling from his tensed limbs. There is no hood over his head, no box beneath his feet, and what initially appear to be outstretched arms turn out, upon closer inspection, to be tattered folds of cloth. Yet it is almost impossible to look at this small work and not be reminded of the more recent image of a hooded prisoner at Abu Ghraib, an artless...
