Las Meninas

Group C I found the way Foucault describes the mirror in Las Meninas to be perplexing. He says that the “mirror provides a metathesis of visibility that affects both the space represented in the picture and its nature as representation; it allows us to see, in the centre of the canvas, what in the painting is of necessity doubly invisible” (6). I believe Foucault is saying that the mirror essentially, allows us to transfer and transport into the image as the subjects that are being painting as the

In 1656 Diego Velazquez painted the painting, “Las Meninas,” nearly 300 years later, Pablo Picasso painted his own variation of the famous painting. Both paintings are of the same scene, however they portray different and exaggerate different things. The original painting by Velazquez shows the princess as a normal human and isn’t emphasized too much. She is in the center however, and is technically emphasized in a way if we follow the rule of thirds. The original painting uses realism and uses

Kim 1 Diego Velázquez 's Las Meninas Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez is depicted as a group portrait of Spanish King Philip IV (8 April 1605 - 17 September 1665) at the Habsburg court. The painting well demonstrates Velázquez 's painting techniques that can be recognized by dramatic mood, rich color and extreme contrast between light and dark. It is absolutely extraordinary and implies influences Velázquez has had, especially Flemish Baroque realism. Velázquez had a deeper ambition in his mind when

Diego Velázquez's created the work of art “Les Meninas” in attempts to achieve naturalism by using extreme details and accuracy within his portraits and the environment. In contrast to Pablo Picasso’s who created “The Maid of Honor”, which is an abstract depiction of “Les Meninas.” Picasso did not attempt to represent reality, instead he used shapes, color, and forms in his paintings to convey the underlying meaning of the original painting “Les Meninas.” The following interpretation of these master

Aldo Menéndez (b. Cienfuegos, Cuba, 1948) A multifaceted artist and intellectual, with the Master Samuel Feijóo started very early in the 60s in Performance; Menéndez was part of the well-known Cuban poster boom of the 60’s - 70’s. Since 1968 when he has made his first personal exhibition, there are innumerable individual and collective shows. He is also one of the pioneers of photorealism on the island (1973-80). Is the founder of the Taller de serigrafía René Portocarrero of Havana. “Within the

Page 1 of 3 ZOOM Have you ever wondered why artists make different variants of their fellow designers work? The incident I will be telling you about is when Pablo Picasso made 58 renditions of Diego Velázquez’s painting ‘Las Meninas.’ This is a very unique piece of art that has been well known in the art industry for the different variations that were made of it. In my essay I will be giving a description of the original piece of art, talking about why he made 58 depictions of ‘LasMeninas’

Las Meninas is a very famous painting that was painted by Diego Velázquez and has been interpreted very differently over three centuries, one of the artists that has remade it is Pablo Picasso. Both the original and Picasso’s version have a very different take on the princess and her attendant(s). Velázquez’s painting Las Meninas was a very interesting one. I think that when he painted Las Meninas he was trying to portray the princess with her attendants waiting on her. He wanted to show that she

Las Meninas (Maids of Honor) by Diego Velazquez, is a Bourque style Spanish painting from the 1700’s, which is known as Velazquez’s masterpiece as an artist and his life as a court painter. Some say Las Meninas is, “This work, one of the most perfect fac-similes of nature that art has ever produced, and which Girodano called la teologia de la pintura, is among the latest productions of the artist” (Curtis 14). Velazquez’s masterpiece was so highly endorsed by many, thus is why Las Meninas was referenced

Page 1 of 2 ZOOM In this essay I will be comparing and contrasting Diego Velazquez's “Las meninas” and Pablo Picasso's “Las meninas” which are two paintings with Diego Velazquez’s being the first to make it in the 1600’s. Comparing:Diego Velazquez’s painting and Pablo Picasso's are the same because they both have very fine detail and how small the lines they made, made such an impact on the result and you can see that it clearly does. I say this because if you look at Picasso’s the streaks

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