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) and Magritte's The Treachery Of Images (1928-29).
See also
- The Art of Painting by Vermeer
- Painting within a painting
- Droste effect
- Gallery painting
- Meta
- Metafiction
- Painting
- Painting consciousness
Further reading
The Self-Aware Image: An Insight into Early Modern Meta-Painting (1996) by Victor I. Stoichita
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