Everything in Velasquez' Las Meninas is in a mirror, so the dog and the 'well-fed artist' are actually in the same positions if you turn the mirror around. Never thought of Diego the well fed artist in relation to the well fed dog before. In unstaged photography you can't PUT the king and the queen ie the subjunctive tense into the center and it may be blocked by a telephone pole and or the subjunctive is NOT represented by the householder in the pink shirt who owns this particular dog, the guy in Velasquez' door is simply leading this particular dog into another particular door, assuming the two guys in the doors are at least as potentially similar as the two dogs, and if they're not, then the guy in the pink shirt is trying to be the guy in Velasquez' door because he can't sit still like the king. Poodles have to be taken from exterior spaces by someone in some sort of shirt for reasons similar to why Velasquez would never paint them out on the street.
I never realized that the king's not actually in the center.. what DV intended by that who knows, but the Diego side of the door splits the east/ west grid.. whatever that means it makes it better.
I guess the painting isn't really a mirror image but the photo uses the mirror near the middle to refract the older image then. If Diego had just told the king and the queen to fuck off who knows if it would have resulted in such a refraction.
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Everything in Velasquez' Las Meninas is in a mirror, so the dog and the 'well-fed artist' are actually in the same positions if you turn the mirror around. Never thought of Diego the well fed artist in relation to the well fed dog before. In unstaged photography you can't PUT the king and the queen ie the subjunctive tense into the center and it may be blocked by a telephone pole and or the subjunctive is NOT represented by the householder in the pink shirt who owns this particular dog, the guy in Velasquez' door is simply leading this particular dog into another particular door, assuming the two guys in the doors are at least as potentially similar as the two dogs, and if they're not, then the guy in the pink shirt is trying to be the guy in Velasquez' door because he can't sit still like the king. Poodles have to be taken from exterior spaces by someone in some sort of shirt for reasons similar to why Velasquez would never paint them out on the street.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Meninas#/media/File:Las_Meninas,_by_Diego_Vel%C3%A1zquez,_from_Prado_in_Google_Earth.jpg
I never realized that the king's not actually in the center.. what DV intended by that who knows, but the Diego side of the door splits the east/ west grid.. whatever that means it makes it better.
I guess the painting isn't really a mirror image but the photo uses the mirror near the middle to refract the older image then. If Diego had just told the king and the queen to fuck off who knows if it would have resulted in such a refraction.
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