Las Meninas
Velázquez's complex masterpiece depicts the artist painting the Spanish royal family. The work is a meditation on representation, reality, and the nature of painting itself. Multiple sight lines and the mirror reflection create ambiguous spatial relationships. The painting questions who is subject and who is object, exploring consciousness, perception, and the artist's role. Foucault analyzed it as fundamental to understanding representation.
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