sábado, 8 de março de 2008

My comments on the painting of Diego Velazquez, Las meninas - 1656.

On the picture we can see nine people. The scene seems to be in a castle or in a cave. Some pictures are hung on the wall and they are old. The owner of this castle seems to be very interested on art and paintings.

The girl in the center of the drawing is well dressed and there is a servant in the corner that takes care about her.

The other girl quite near the servant seems to be also a rich girl like the little girl in the center. The other two ones in the right side of the painting are probably a priest and a nun, representing the Catholic Church. According to the drawing, the girls in the right side are pleased to be at that situation even in a servility moment because they are near rich people. This is proved by the dog figure that never rises his head. But the girl that annoys the dog, putting her shoe in its body.

The painter in the left side is very amazing and again very mysterious, because there is other painter behind him that observes everything. Is he the same one? What is he painting? What is he looking at? Behind the little tree girls are other scene shown in a mirror. Must be the exactly the scene in the main picture. The girls in white are well dressed. They seem to be happy indeed, but the others are in a minor situation.

In the very behind the drawing there is a man who is a paiter too. Is he Diogo himself, we must ourselves apply about the real meaning of the elements.

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