Once You See This Painting You Can't Unsee It

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This piece is called Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez. One of the most famous and controversial paintings in the world. In the center of the painting is the five-year-old princess, Infanta Margarita Teresa. To her left and right are her ladies-in-waiting (meninas) and the rest of her entourage surrounds her. Don José Nieto Velázquez stands in the backlit doorway, ascending or descending the stairs on the back wall. We can also see two hazy figures staring back at us. This is King Philip IV of Spain and Queen Mariana. To the left of the painting is the artist himself, Diego Velázquez. But what is he painting? The answer to this question is still a mystery more than 350 years later.
Velázquez depicts a bright future in the idealized depiction of Margarita who was the only living heir at the time. But the reality was much more bleak. Thank you so much for watching!
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@Art_Deco Год назад

@clairefitzpatrick7183 Год назад

Fun fact the second dwarf painting you showed looks exactly like my partner.😀 He's also a professional artist lol

@jc3drums916 9 месяцев назад

You are the undisputed master of the YT ad segue, lol

@WobblesandBean Год назад

I wish I had that skill. His style is loose yet tight, painterly yet supremely detailed and realistic, effortless but intricately and painstakingly planned down to every last detail.

@c3N3q Год назад

I'd say you can describe pretty well what you like. The "skills" is just practice.

@julialewis8794 Год назад

I wish I had that dog 😊

@Laocoon283 Год назад

Well... I mean if you spend every hour of every day from childhood to middle age you would prolly be able to make some really good stuff. Too bad only rich people are allowed to devote their lives to hobbies.

@c3N3q Год назад

Painting is actually fairly easy, as opposed to eg. playing an instrument. You can paint at your own speed, reshape and paint over... There's tons of videos on RU-vid on how to paint. Bit of perspective, bit of drawing (objects from basic geometrical shapes) and colour theory (colour wheel). You can paint decent stuff in no time.

@Laocoon283 Год назад

@@c3N3q Well of course painting is fairly easy everything is fairly easy the problem is painting WELL is not fairly easy. You can apply that same logic to music too. There are tons of piano tutorials on youtube and in little to no time you too can play Mary had a little lamb...

@andrewedris2800 11 месяцев назад

I don't understand how anyone could think Las Meninas is boring or cringey. It's a combination of "you are there" realism and Velasquez' sense of humor by creating a puzzle of multiple perspectives in the mirrors. If not for Velasquez how else would we know what these tragic people looked?

@shroomyk Год назад

It is ironic that Hapsburgs wanted to keep power, but then extreme inbreeding leads to sterility or very fragile babies that do not survive. In an effort to keep their line, they killed it. The same happened with King Tutankhamun and his family.

@c.w.8200 Год назад

The HABSBURGS didn't know about genetics just like everyone else back then and the strategy that got them from being a minor house holding a small province to Holy Roman emperors was marrying their children off strategically, unfortunately when they were extremely powerful this led to incest matches because they could otherwise only marry down not up like they used to and also most noble houses in Central and Western Europe had Habsburg genes in the mix at that point. Let's not pretend that all the other noble houses in Europe and even commoners were beyond incestuous marriages back then, it was common to marry cousins decades into the 20th, even Charles Darwin married his own cousin.

@jpor7259 Год назад

A big problem was the geopolitical reality of the time. Britain and half of Germany had become Protestant, while Italy was just a vassal of Spain. A Habsburg did not marry servants or Protestants. The only family of equal dignity and Catholic faith for them was the Bourbons, whom they had literally spent an entire century trying to murder. The political circumstances forced them into incest.

@myriamickx7969 Год назад

It was "de rigueur” for Egyptian pharaos to marry their sisters. In Europe, starting from the medieval era, there was always a certain degree of inbreeding among the ruling family, but no one pushed it further than the Habsburgs.The last king Charles II suffered from a genetic disease which rendered him (thankfully) infertile, and he was reportedly never able to learn to read or write. If you take a good look at the Windsor family, there's some serious inbreeding there as well.

@shroomyk Год назад

@@myriamickx7969 Oh for sure. Even the late Queen and Prince Philip were 2nd cousins. Not too bad, but still closer than I'd like to be with my own family. lol Of course Victoria and Albert were 1st cousins, IIRC. And on and on.

@Sacration Год назад

@@c.w.8200Doesnt make it less weird and gross. It also doesnt change the fact that they killed their own, u do not need genetics to know that marrying procreate in your own familly tree is gross, weird and will have some conséquences

@maried3717 11 месяцев назад

Horrifying that this young girl was used and abused until she was 21 and died from her 7th pregnancy! Disgusting history. I have seen a copy of this painting and could never have imagined.

@Haghenveien 11 месяцев назад

I'm spanish so I have obviously studied Las Meninas at school. But seeing them in real life is on a whole new level. It's just breathtaking. I have gone to El Prado three times and it have awed me everytime. It's a very big painting and you can see it way before you enter in the room. And just for a moment is like those people were just there. It's an experience that if you have the chance to live, I totally recomend.

@AG-iu9lv 4 месяца назад

Thank you for this engaging description! I will make it a point to go there. If you ever find yourself in Tampa, Florida, I suggest you go to the Salvador Dalì museum. It's the closest experience I've had to the one you described seeing Las Meninas.

@umang3227 Год назад

You got me into art history. Your style of narration is superb.

@Art_Deco Год назад

That’s amazing. Thank you!

@tarahbutler2169 Год назад

She the best!!

@KouNagai Год назад

i litterally had zero interest about art history before this channel. but now i am watching every video of this channel, incredible

@Miss_Camel Год назад

The whole ‘juice box” bit has had me snort laughing

@jackx4311 11 месяцев назад

The narrator sounds like a second-rate robot.

@on_spikes6867 Год назад

please never change your microphone. it kind of adds a unique character to your videos

@gracev8762 Год назад

What way does the mic make her voice different?

@Vtuber_Xantherous Год назад

@@gracev8762 It's the room she records and the echo. A little on the mic-- which honestly sounds wonderful to me as well.

@marilynmcconnell-twiss3046 Год назад

I find the sound quite distracting and kind of 'blurred' almost to the point the point of giving up.

@mtbootz1849 11 месяцев назад

@@marilynmcconnell-twiss3046 Agreed. I looked for closed captions. Finding them unavailable, I'll just move on to another video.

@soyjoyy 10 месяцев назад

This echo makes her sounds like she is a guide in a museum telling us about famous paintings. I think it fits the theme of the chanel incredibly well.

@Flying-Maytree Год назад

I remember the first time I looked at a digital version of this painting. I zoomed in on the dog and all I could see were a few smears of black and brown paint. Then I zoomed out a bit and suddenly -- DOG! The whole dog is just a suggestion really, not a figure, but it's so masterfully done you can clearly see DOG. It's amazing.

@brettvonhenneberg-romhild3535 11 месяцев назад

How clever of Valesquez. We are an observer of a painting being painted by a painter observing the observed in a painting by observers while painting himself. He's communicating with us over centuries.

@ryanmichael7007 Год назад

"An arranged marriage to a man that's both her maternal uncle and paternal cousin." That sentence broke me.

@windycityliz7711 8 месяцев назад

Along with died at 21 during her 7th pregnancy :(

@susanma4899 11 месяцев назад

When you were describing the way Velazquez had painted his own hand, I thought--it's like he's painting a blur, as if his hand were in motion. But of course this painting predates the camera...it's amazing that he would've thought of doing this. Genius.

@randomuser3209 Год назад

A print of this painting used to hang in my parents' living room and I remember always thinking something was off. Thanks for making me understand it better!

@theproplady Год назад

Velazquez's painting hand looks like a motion blur. Like the painting is catching him in mid-stroke. Adds life and action to the scene.

@limecilla7612 10 месяцев назад

It's interesting because Velazquez also experiments with portraying movement in his other painting "Las hilanderas" or "El triunfo de Aracne". There, the spinning wheel on the foreground has also a blur effect to convey movement. And that was happening more than 200 years prior to cinema! As Manet said, Velazquez is truly the painter of painters.

@frogsoda 10 месяцев назад

@@limecilla7612Not completely related. But I like to photograph dancers and when I do I like to portray them in motion. But the dancers don't seem to like it.😅 Then I looked at the dance photography of Michal Baryshnikov. It's almost all motion blur. It's phenomenal!

@milaces1323 Год назад

I actually have a photo as a five year-old standing beneath the painting, strangers took photos of me because i was the same height as the infanta 😅

@TOPDadAlpha Год назад

I had the honor to view this paining in person last January... I stood there for 20 minutes or so. It is absolutely amazing and beautiful. It is much much larger then one would think also.

@maidpretty Год назад

Habsburg Jaw was strong with this one.

@ThePowerflake 11 месяцев назад

Velasquez seems to have that same jaw.

@jwoolman5 10 месяцев назад

But the little girl didn't seem to display it noticeably to me. Did the artist adjust it or did it just take puberty to make the characteristic long face show in her?

@celestenova777 Год назад

What an entertaining video stacked with info on this wonderful painting. Thanks for your work, always a joy to watch.

@Art_Deco Год назад

Thank you!!

@robin2012ism Год назад

@@Art_Deco I concur.

@alialluaibi3008 Год назад

The painting is like a mirror through time in which we stair through to the moment the painting is being made while the people in the painting staring back at us creating a moment of back and forth !

@fmor2779 Год назад

Move over Mona Lisa indeed! A lot of people considered the painting unimpressive until someone decided to steal it thinking nobody would notice the painting's absence. Las Meninas has a lot more to unpack, although A Bar at the Folies-Bergère will always be one of my favorites!

@skarbuskreska Год назад

It was seen as unimpressive because it didn't depict anyone important, they were and are not sure till this day who it depicts. But the techniques were impressive enough for the time. I see though why people might find it boring, not much happening in there and a normal woman depicted without anything special like some bling bling or a great hairstyle to look at. Not lively enough like the Impressionists paintings.

@SerenityChaos1975 Год назад

Picasso was actually obsessed with this painting. He created a huge amount of drawings and studies of the painting, many of which are on display at the Picassom museum in Barcelona

@bluewren65 11 месяцев назад

Not just studies, but a whole series of finished paintings.

@verucasalt9182 Год назад

A visit to El Prado museum is a must for any art admirer.

@Dana-712FifthAve Год назад

It really is ❤

@globalheart Год назад

I SO enjoy YOUR creations!!!!😂 Thank you again, historically informative as well as keenly observant, and may i say, riotously entertaining! 🤣❤

@Art_Deco Год назад

Thank you!

@jillwanlin9558 Год назад

Even though you don’t post often, I can’t tell you how much I appreciate it when you do. I absolutely ❤ this channel. As for the painting, as soon as I saw the princess, I thought, ok, Hapsburg family here??? As far as Diego Velasquez and his message here, I definitely saw it as bragging rights.

@wordforger Год назад

Right? The entire family has the chin.

@jillwanlin9558 Год назад

@@wordforger definitely. The forehead too I think.

@someuncreativity 8 месяцев назад

completely unrelated, i love the scenes you made of the people in the room basically arguing with each other, i honestly kinda wish more art history videos had that

@Yoda8945 11 месяцев назад

I saw the painting Las Meninas Adel Prado and viewed it with my back to the painting and from a mirror. In that viewing, it is positively 3D. That was over 50 years ago and that impression has remained with me!

@princecharon Год назад

Yes, the dog is certainly adorable. Velázquez was an amazing painter.

@NectereYT Год назад

I really enjoy this channel and look forward to your lighthearted and informative reviews. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and humor in such an entertaining way.

@DulceN Год назад

Thanks so much for this video. Diego Velázquez and I were born in Seville, Spain, and we are very proud of this great artist.

@anu15155 Год назад

Can't express how much I love your video style. I've looked long for videos on art and art history that weren't too academic or too dumbed down. This is perfect! Also absolutely adore your humour.

@livysouza1983 Год назад

Las meninas é uma pintura barroca, do século XVII, cuja característica mais marcante é o equilíbrio entre luz e escuridão. Um exemplo perfeito de antítese.

@kikidevine694 9 месяцев назад

Chiaroscuro!

@goldeneddie 11 месяцев назад

The trouble is with these interpretations, I always wonder how much is just guesswork? I mean, when we say 'By doing X, Velasquez wanted to say Y' do we really know that, or is it just an interpretive guess? Including the Reubens paintings in the background could just be an homage, like the mirror is, and nothing to do with claiming that he had 'reached the same level' as Reubens. I think we need to distinguish between what we KNOW, what is SYMBOLIC, and what is only SUGGESTED.

@superj-man137 11 месяцев назад

The segway into the sponsor was *chef's kiss" perfect!

@laurenelizabeth_9745 Год назад

I’m so glad you mentioned how cute the puppy is, when I first saw this painting in my art history class that was my first reaction to it lol

@renesagahon4477 Год назад

Las Meninas. One of the greatest masterpieces of all time

@j.towles5376 Год назад

I remember seeing this painting as a kid in person back in the early 90s when I went to Spain. Many years later as an adult I saw it on the internet and completely forgot where I’d originally seen it. I studied and researched it for years before I remembered where I’d originally seen it.

@braviansamuelpanderaja5723 Год назад

The master piece of a art!

@nf1619 Год назад

I missed these sooo much!! ♥

@mikeemery6741 10 месяцев назад

I stumbled upon this video by accident. How marvelously entertaining! I thoroughly enjoyed your narrative and instructive presentation ~ Don't change a thing! I shall return!

@nodemons Год назад

I wish I'd had references like this when I was doing art history growing up, even though I eventually garnered most of this information, it's your presentation that makes it relatable and exciting!

@Kristy_cat Год назад

I live in Madrid and every time I go to the Prado, I always go look at this painting. It’s one of my favorites!!

@nysaakolkar6897 Год назад

wow your channel deserves so many more views and subscribers

@Art_Deco Год назад

Thank you!! Maybe we can get to a million subscribers one day. That would be a dream 😍

@nysaakolkar6897 Год назад

@@Art_Deco I really hope that happens fingers crossed By the way I love your video's so keep going

@ShirleeKnott Год назад

agree!!!!

@lollipoplemur5073 Год назад

I’ve always admired this painting. Now I have even more reason to love it. Thank you!!

@bamauthor 10 месяцев назад

You're right. I have always found this painting intriguing. The element of the unknown combined with the contrast of dark and light color keeps drawing the eye into the painting. One feels compelled to stare.

@kimmi2662 11 месяцев назад

Really love this channel, thank you for all the hardwork behind the scenes, to bring us into the paintings!

@PeterTea 11 месяцев назад

I had the good fortune of seeing this painting in Madrid. It’s not enough to just see such a great work but to understand the context of why it is heralded as such. And you do a great job of that. Thanks.

@mommachupacabra Год назад

Never thought of Vasquez as the progenitor of Impressionism! Amazing, thank you!

@anaz5918 Год назад

Velasquez.

@verucasalt9182 Год назад

@@anaz5918 Velazquez .

@elledevon 11 месяцев назад

Okay, just so you know, the dress was not “poofy” during this time period women had an under structure called Pannier it was a cage that held the dress out on either side and yes the size mattered. (And yes I am an expert in historical costume.)Also in regard to the feet, they may have not been visible due to the size of the panniers or perhaps in shadow to add to the illumination of the central figure.

@zantas-handle 11 месяцев назад

Thank you for that. There's a few 'dodgy facts' in this vid, and some assertions that ought to be preceded by 'I think' or 'It's possible that'.

@jasonbland7383 Год назад

I always enjoy your analysis... keep it up. Glad I stumbled across your channel recently!

@yamataichul Год назад

I hope you get to make more of these videos. You reminded me of highschool, of history art classes and many of your points are not only similar to my experiences on those classes but sometimes identical like in this video. Education about arts is universal but mostly carried by those who chose to focus on literal textbook presentations.

@JasExists Год назад

I really look forward to your videos, they're always so informative and entertaining! Also, can i say you have the best way of introducing your sponsors :D

@sixwingsram 11 месяцев назад

Thank you so much for posting this showing his artist brilliance. He indeed is the painter of painters🔥💜🔥

@a.duncan6791 11 месяцев назад

Nicely done. You have the knack of changing direction when we least expect it. It keeps my attention for fear I'll lose information if my mind wanders. I'll check out your other posts.

@ettu7237 Год назад

love, love your channel. love your presentations, your voice. love learning about art.

@johnguild8850 10 месяцев назад

Wow, after your video I'll never look at this painting the same way again. Thanks!

@feliciasjoberg9886 Год назад

"..little girl giving us serious side eye.." 👀 Missed opportunity to say "bombastic side eye" *just kidding* LOVE YOUR VIDEOS!

@lasagna.1706 4 месяца назад

I love these videos and how you edit them, it's just so good!!!! I reallllyyy want more painting explanation and history!

@kevwills858 Год назад

Nice channel.. Im just an old mechanic in 🇦🇺 who stumbled upon a year ago(ish) Im by no means an Artist and posess none ... You intruige me with your attention to detail (something even a mechanic needs) but brushstrokes, the tools and pigments of bygone eras captivate my attention (along with your knowledge) Keep teaching us dummies 101 😄✌

@enyalacerate2521 Год назад

I obviously wasn't there when this artist was creating this painting, but yes, that pupper was indeed an adorable good boy/girl. 💗💞

@davidanderson_surrey_bc 10 месяцев назад

John Wick quality.

@readpostcard Год назад

Love how you go into each area. I try and guess what you will be talking about but never get it right. Awesome channel. Thank you for all your hard work😊

@mandiemoore3272 Год назад

The artist grasp of then now and future is breathtaking

@enucxus Год назад

You're almost half a million! looking forward to your success. this channel deserves recognition. i love your content, keep up the good work! keep on sharing all this art with us. whenever i do somrthing i just listen to your video. i love learning things about the paintings. love from the Philippines! keep up the good work!

@ShirleeKnott Год назад

agree 💯

@possumaintdead Год назад

I love your art talks and always look forward to them! Even though I’m subscribed, RU-vid never lets me know when they’re up! Frustrating! I love the way you work your ad in too-wonderful! ❤

@marilyn8490 Год назад

Yes, Las Meninas is the size of the canvas you see Velásquez painting here. It is huge...and yet hard to see in person because of the huge number of tourists who stop on group tours to see this!

@SDMA1989 Год назад

Absolutely love your channel. Thank you! ❤

@AshleyNebs Год назад

I really love your channel. I’ve learned more art history from you than I did in my college courses.

@BauhausGothic Год назад

The secret of this painting is so amazing and sophisticated! 😮😮😮👏👏👏

@kairioblivion6544 Год назад

Yes!! One of my fav paintings!! Ty!!❤

@teacherjoe7019 11 месяцев назад

I had seen pictures of Las Meninas in books when I was young. When I was older, on a guided tour tour of the Prado, I saw the painting and learned its story. The painting is so large in real life. Amazing!

@TheRaspberry82 11 месяцев назад

Wonderful! Former fine art broker - and Velazquez is indeed the Painter of All Painters. Thank you!

@Ana-vb5ms Год назад

Ayyy new vid!! thank you for the vids, you're my faveourite art youtuber, love the memes in the videos, haha. keep up the great work!!!

@Art_Deco Год назад

That means a lot! Thank you so much!

@luperdrgz Год назад

I really love how you narrate these videos ! I don’t know many female artists (other than frida) and would really appreciate it if you did more videos like this on artworks made by other women in history It’s just a suggestion though, I know you’re really busy and at the end of the day you should be doing what you enjoy

@alexakammler6440 11 месяцев назад

Look up for Artemisia Gentileschi, an italian barock painteresse...later Angelika Kauffmann, Swiss...Vigee le Brun, France - she painted Marie Antoinette ofter...there are many talented woman painters

@loverlyredhead 11 месяцев назад

My favorite is Mary Cassatt, one of the Impressionists. I considered decorating my nursery with prints of her work (I ended up doing fox paintings by a friend of mine, instead).

@limecilla7612 10 месяцев назад

You have also the Italians Rennaissance painter Sophonisba Anguissola and early baroque Lavinia Fontana, Flemish still-life painter Clara Peeters...

@shellyirby9828 Год назад

This video was great! I've enjoyed all of them so far.

@lauriebartling579 11 месяцев назад

That was amazing! Very engaging and informative. Thank you so much. I hope you keep them coming. ❤️👍😊

@marthawoodworth 11 месяцев назад

I saw it at the Prado. Practically lived there while visiting Madrid. IMO the greatest museum in the world.

@Phylonyous 7 месяцев назад

Love the creative story telling!

@mike_98058 Год назад

This is my favorite painting yet among all the great works you have shown. Your intelligent and entertaining videos have been my art education. Great work (you and Velazquez).

@MossyMozart 11 месяцев назад

@mike_98058 - My absolute favorite painting is "Juan de Pareja", also by Velázquez. It's in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC.

@SpellboundWolf Год назад

Yay! It's a new episode!

@middletech Год назад

I don’t understand how art of the last century was the highest paid art ever when old masters like this exist.

@jeannesilberstein3879 11 месяцев назад

Really enjoyed the presentation.

@thomasgirty6397 Год назад

i like the depth of the painting. the mirror and the man on the distant stairs.

@sherriethompson83 Год назад

Amazing painting! I am drawn to someone different every time I see it.

@annadreamsart9756 Год назад

Your videos are wonderful! so funny while teaching what I wanted to learn. Thank you! This was a joy to watch.

@davewright8206 Год назад

omg ... on so many different levels .. time not wasted . cheers

@michellesnow1920 11 месяцев назад

Absolutely love this one💘

@justbecauseOK 11 месяцев назад

EVERYONE has to see this painting in the flesh before they shuffle off this mortal coil... One of humanities greatest achievements.

@harrietpeabody2118 11 месяцев назад

Beautiful

@chaimabouaziz5218 Год назад

I love your videos! So informative and educational.

@hekates-ladder Год назад

I was never into visual art history before finding your channel. Thank you for helping me find ANOTHER category of art to hyperfixate on 🥰 (also… I don’t think I’ve ever seen a sponsorship ad reel incorporated so effortlessly. Well done. 👏)

@AmaraJordanMusic Год назад

Having a terrible week because of my health, but I’ve been catching up on videos, and this cheered me up quite a bit! The humor is awesome; I haven’t found a channel quite like it! 😅

@andrewclayton4181 Год назад

One of my favourite paintings, there is a lot going on in it, and a few little mysteries just to keep the imagination alive.

@ericfielding2540 11 месяцев назад

Great explanation of many things that went into this painting. I never thought about the equal level of the people in the foreground.

@Eazy-ERyder Год назад

These are getting more and more creative.

@basbleupeaunoire 11 месяцев назад

I love your videos. The sleeve you zoomed in on - amazing.

@storylockett2418 10 месяцев назад

My grandfather was a painter. The one that i use to stare at most when i was really young, was the one where he painted himself, painting a shop window when a gorgeous woman (his wife) passes by and his distraction leads to his hand holding the paint brush to go off to the side and put a large red streak down the "window". Something you said during the video reminded me of that.