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This Picture The Painter: Thus, by means of his art, Picasso revealed to us his current state of mind. In this picture the painter has become a voyeur, but his glances are no longer passionate or irresistible, and the model is now able not only to withstand it, but also to return it, as if she was accusing the artist of using the female body so frequentlyin hisart. It seems that painting wastheonly re ic of days gone by, because nothing else that used to give him satisfaction was still at his disposa -nothing excepthisart. Undertheguiseofthe painter-and-mo-del theme Picasso gave a personal justification for his indefatigable creativity: the picture was meant to prove that he was still alive.Picasso, exempt from the dogma of central perspective, puts the painter more into the foreground and emphasizes him even more strongly. The real theme of the picture is Picasso himself and his self-examination. The question remains open whether the picture is mainly a quotation of Velazquez or rather of himself.
His adaptation of "Las Meninas" (p. 84) of 17 August 1957 was one in a series of 44 variations on the same picture, all of which had taken shape as a result of a careful analysis of individual figures and the painting as a whole. It had been over half a century before, that Pablo had admired Velazquez's original of 1656 in the Prado. Picasso may have been inspired by the Spanish tradition of this picture, its worldwide fame, and the theme "painter and studio". |
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