Unfortunately, many of Francisco Goya's collections of artwork were not published or released until years after his death
. Holo even states in her introduction that "Los Disparates" wasn't published until thirty-six years after Goya's death (Holo 5). Goya's artistic social commentary wasn't absorbed with the immediacy and efficiency that he would have desired because the public barely saw his most horrific, hence most prolific, pieces. He worked best preying up common human fears and emotions and realized that his cute and funny taboo paintings like The Nude Maja, paled in comparison in sending his message to some of his more extreme work like the Disparates series. Goya managed to work outside the closed minds that ran society, catapulting his commentary to a metaphysical level all while staying deeply rooted in their shared problems. His harsh depictions of true life showed the worst so Spain could change for the better.