Metapainting
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| - | [[Image:Reverse Side Of a Painting.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[Reverse Side of a Painting]]'' (1670) by [[Cornelis Norbertus Gysbrechts]]]] | + | {| class="toccolours" style="float: left; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 2em; font-size: 85%; background:#c6dbf7; color:black; width:30em; max-width: 40%;" cellspacing="5" |
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| + | "The term [[metafiction]] appears to have been coined in English by [[William H. Gass]] in his 1970 essay “[[Philosophy and the Form of Fiction]]” while the term ''[[metapainting]]'' appeared in English perhaps for the first time in the 1978 essay "[[Levels of Reality in Literature]]" by [[Italo Calvino]]." --Sholem Stein | ||
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| + | [[Image:Reverse Side Of a Painting.jpg|thumb|right|200px| | ||
| + | This page '''{{PAGENAME}}''' is part of the ''[[meta]]'' series.<br> | ||
| + | Illustration: ''[[Reverse Side of a Painting]]'' (1670) by [[Cornelis Norbertus Gysbrechts]], an example of ''[[metapainting]]''.]] | ||
| + | [[Image:Ancient Rome (1757) by Giovanni Paolo Panini.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[Ancient Rome (painting)|Ancient Rome]]'' (1757) by [[Giovanni Paolo Panini]], a real painting depicting [[imaginary painting]]s of actual Roman antiquities.]] | ||
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| The term '''metapainting''' refers to [[painting]]s that reflect on the nature of paintings, paintings on painting as it were. | The term '''metapainting''' refers to [[painting]]s that reflect on the nature of paintings, paintings on painting as it were. | ||
| - | A '''painting within a painting''' is a [[painting]] painted in another painting. An early example is | + | To this category belong such paintings as ''[[Reverse Side of a Painting]]'' (1670), ''[[Las Meninas]]'' (1656) by Diego Velázquez and Magritte's ''[[The Treachery Of Images]]'' (1928-29). |
| - | ''[[Gabrielle d'Estrées et une de ses soeurs]]'' by an [[unknown artist]] of the [[School of Fontainebleau]], the painting within a painting is in the center top. Another example is ''[[The Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in his gallery in Brussels]]''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:David_Teniers_d._J._008.jpg] by [[David Teniers the Younger]], in which Teniers documented the archduke's [[art collection|collection of paintings]] while he was court painter in Brussels; see [[gallery painting]]. | + | |
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| - | In the back of ''[[The Music Lesson]]'' by [[Johannes Vermeer]] can be seen a painting of the [[Roman Charity]], consistent with his habit of putting paintings within paintings. | + | |
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| - | In [[Magritte]]'s ''[[The Human Condition (painting)|The Human Condition]]'', the cover-up appears in the form a painting within a painting. Magritte had this to say of his 1933 work: | + | |
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| - | :"In front of a window seen from inside a room, I placed a painting representing exactly that portion of the landscape covered by the painting. Thus, the tree in the picture hid the tree behind it, outside the room. For the spectator, it was both inside the room within the painting and outside in the real landscape." | + | |
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| ==More examples== | ==More examples== | ||
| - | *"[[Time smoking a picture]]"[http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1015/4553084846_ae84f60465.jpg] by William Hogarth. It is a painting within a painting and breaks the fourth wall. | + | *"[[Time smoking a picture]]" by William Hogarth. It is a painting within a painting and breaks the fourth wall. |
| + | *''[[Brushstrokes]]'' by [[Roy Lichtenstein]] | ||
| ==See also== | ==See also== | ||
| + | *''[[The Art of Painting]]'' by Vermeer | ||
| *[[Painting within a painting]] | *[[Painting within a painting]] | ||
| *[[Droste effect]] | *[[Droste effect]] | ||
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| *[[Painting consciousness]] | *[[Painting consciousness]] | ||
| + | *[[The contest of Zeuxis and Parrhasius]] | ||
| + | ==Further reading== | ||
| + | *''[[The Self-Aware Image: An Insight into Early Modern Meta-Painting]]'' (1996) by [[Victor I. Stoichita]] | ||
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"The term metafiction appears to have been coined in English by William H. Gass in his 1970 essay “Philosophy and the Form of Fiction” while the term metapainting appeared in English perhaps for the first time in the 1978 essay "Levels of Reality in Literature" by Italo Calvino." --Sholem Stein |
Illustration: Reverse Side of a Painting (1670) by Cornelis Norbertus Gysbrechts, an example of metapainting.
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The term metapainting refers to paintings that reflect on the nature of paintings, paintings on painting as it were.
To this category belong such paintings as Reverse Side of a Painting (1670), Las Meninas (1656) by Diego Velázquez and Magritte's The Treachery Of Images (1928-29).
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More examples
- "Time smoking a picture" by William Hogarth. It is a painting within a painting and breaks the fourth wall.
- Brushstrokes by Roy Lichtenstein
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See also
- The Art of Painting by Vermeer
- Painting within a painting
- Droste effect
- Gallery painting
- Meta
- Metafiction
- Painting
- Painting consciousness
- The contest of Zeuxis and Parrhasius
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Further reading
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