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Ramon Casas Portrait of Santiago Rusiñol, 1900 |
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Ramon Casas Portrait of Santiago Rusiñol, 1900 This portrait portrays the painter Santiago Rusiñol at the beginning of the modernista movement. Rusiñol stands beside a traveling bag and a stretched canvas. A naturalistic landscape, probably painted outdoors, is pinned to the wall, obscuring a copy or reproduction of Diego Velázquez's celebrated 17th-century portrait of Princess Margarita. This brazen gesture of effacing a royal portrait by Velázquez, the greatest master of the golden age of Spanish painting, turns the landscape into a visual manifesto calling for the new art to replace the old.
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