Goya, GOY uh, Francisco (1746-1828), a leading Spanish painter, was one of the first masters of modern art. His free brushwork and brilliant colors suggest to some critics the Impressionist movement of the late 1800's. Goya's skill in capturing a dramatic moment and his fantastic imagination influenced the Romantics of the early 1800's. His bitter satire on human nature and his search for a deeper reality in human emotions and subconscious inspired Expressionism and Surrealism, two major art movements of the 1900's.