Art Is Not A Spectator Sport

Ep 18a: Who? What! (Las Meninas)

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Sinopsis

What type of painting is it? A self-portrait? A royal portrait? A genre painting or a scene of everyday life? Is this just a Spanish Baroque version of MTV Cribs? The composition creates an illusion of casualness, an illusion of spontaneity and mundanity, that is deceptive, because as anyone who has studied painting of this...