[Microblog] Las Meninas

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Darren du Nord@c.im

$Picasso's Las Meninas (1957) is a bold, cubist reimagining of Velázquez's famous painting. Figures are shattered into sharp geometric fragments — angular black outlines filled with stark blacks, whites, and grays. The Infanta Margarita looms large at center, blocky and monumental. Attendants crowd around her as fractured, almost puppet-like forms. A tall, skeletal Velázquez dominates the left. The room feels tilted, electric, and slightly menacing — order deliberately broken apart.$

Las Meninas. Pablo Picasso. 1957

Seen recently on our visit to Museo Picasso in Barcelona.

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