Metapainting
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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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