Las Meninas

When I was first reading Foucault's piece, the introduction captured my attenction. If you refer back to Las Meninas by Diego Velaquez while reading the article, everything makes sense. Foucault puts emphasis on invisiblity and visibility by repeating the words and using examples. One of the examples that Foucault uses is Velaquez in the painting. In class today, we talked about various reasons as to why Velaquez put himself in the actual painting. The act of him putting himself in the painting while painting the artwork symbolizes to me that Velaquez wanted to be in that time period to accurately paint the picture right in his eyes; that's the fundamental answer to the question what is art. Just like Velaquez, Dali paints himself in numerous artworks as well. For some reason, I like that artists can put themselves into their work. It makes the art more personable.