Paintings Reproductions Velazquez Painting the Infanta Margarita with the Lights and Shadows of His Own Glory, 1958, 1958 by Salvador Dali (Inspired By) (1904-1989, Spain) | WahooArt.com

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"Velazquez Painting the Infanta Margarita with the Lights and Shadows of His Own Glory, 1958"

Salvador Dali (i) - Oil On Canvas (i) - 153 x 92 cm - 1958 - (Salvador Dali Museum (St.Petersburg, United States)) (i) - Surrealism (i)
Portraying a Princess of Spain from an era gone by, Dali painted this particular work. She’s also popularly known as “The Infanta”. She was King Felipe IV’s daughter and the painter at his court, Velazquez, captured her eternal essence in a family portrait he made for them. This painting is now situated in Madrid’s famous Prado Museum. According to Salvador Dali, Velazquez ranked amongst the greatest painters that this world had ever seen. In order to display his strong appreciation for Velazquez, Dali depicts him in the form of a silhouette, as he tends to his own portrait of the Infanta. Infamously, Dali also sympathized with the aristocrats and monarchs, which seems reflected here as well. Regardless of his affinity towards the nobility, Dali also simply adored the way Velazquez’s brush yielded unhindered chaos upon his canvas as likened his movement to that of atoms. Dali had always seen the world’s composition of atoms as a reflection of its Divinity. Dali’s Infanta is nothing but a chaotic display of atom-like paint.

 





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