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Las Meninas is a famous painting by Diego Velazquez, but it has been recreated many times. Pablo Picasso, one of the world’s most famous artists, made over 50 different interpretations of the popular painting. Though Picasso and Velazquez are two very different painters with two very different styles of painting, the two have collided their styles and ideas with the painting.The two paintings are similar in multiple ways, yet still quite different. Both Picasso and Velazquez depict a girl, the princess, being dressed by her servants. The girl is wearing a yellow dress in both paintings, but Picasso shows the dress to be more vibrant yellow, whereas the painting by Velazquez show the dress to be faded, lost of color. The work by Picasso differs from the original …show more content…

Picasso also portrays the girl to be much larger than the woman assisting her, but Velazquez depicts a smaller girl. Velazquez’s painting style for Las Meninas is very realistic, whereas Picasso, famous for his cubism, has a distorted picture of the girl. Velazquez and Picasso each portray a seamstress in a green dress. Both painters also have the woman to the left of the girl.I think Velazquez was trying to portray the social ladder of Spain at the time. He portrays this by showing the princess, who is just a young girl, being served by grown men and women, her servants, and Velazquez himself. This shows how royal blood was superior to servants and common citizens, no matter the age.Picasso was trying to portray how the princess is seen in a more positive and important way compared to the grown seamstress. The artist shows this by drawing the princess large, colorful and beautiful. To contrast this, he paints the woman small, undetailed, and dull. This shows that the princess was always seen as a more important

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