Alchemist Picasso: a Reading of “Las Meninas”

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Guadalupe Lucero

Abstract

The objective of this essay is to refl ect on Picasso’s Las meninas según Velázquez, painted in 1957. We have chosen three moments to develop our thesis: in the fi rst place, we will develop a critical revision of the classical lectures on Las Meninas since Foucault published his essay in Les mots et les choses (1966); secondly, and taking as a starting point Rosalind Krauss’ essay on Picasso, The Picasso Papers, we will read the series as a dialectic of fake and falsifi cation, and fi nally we will analyze the relationship between form and content through the problemposing of musical variation. We would like to point out that what is revolutionary in Picasso’s series is indeed their fake power.

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Guadalupe Lucero

 Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina guadalucero@yahoo.com.ar