Editing Diego Velázquez (section)

===Modern recreations of classics===
The respect with which twentieth century painters regard Velázquez's work attests to its continuing importance. Pablo Picasso paid homage to Velázquez in 1957 when he recreated {{Lang|es|Las Meninas}} in 44 variations, in his characteristic style.<ref>Harris 1982,  p. 177.</ref> Although Picasso was concerned that his reinterpretations of Velázquez's painting would be seen merely as copies rather than as unique representations,{{citation needed|date=September 2023}} the enormous works—the largest he had produced since ''[[Guernica (Picasso)|Guernica]]'' (1937)—entered the canon of Spanish art.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Las Meninas, 1957 by Pablo Picasso |url=https://www.pablopicasso.org/las-meninas.jsp |access-date=29 August 2023 |website=www.pablopicasso.org}}</ref>

[[Salvador Dalí]], as with Picasso, in anticipation of the tercentennial of Velázquez's death, created in 1958 a work entitled'' [[Velázquez Painting the Infanta Margarita With the Lights and Shadows of His Own Glory]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Velázquez Painting the Infanta Marguerita with the Lights and Shadows of His Own Glory |url=https://archive.thedali.org/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=1670;type=101 |access-date=28 August 2023 |website=archive.thedali.org}}</ref> The color scheme shows Dalí's serious tribute to Velázquez; the work also functioned, as in Picasso's case, as a vehicle for the presentation of newer theories in art and thought—nuclear mysticism, in Dalí's case.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Velázquez Painting the Infanta Marguerita with the Lights and Shadows of His Own Glory |url=https://archive.thedali.org/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=1670;type=101 |access-date=29 August 2023 |website=archive.thedali.org}}</ref>

The Anglo-Irish painter [[Francis Bacon (artist)|Francis Bacon]] found Velázquez's ''[[Portrait of Innocent X]]'' to be "one of the greatest portraits ever".<ref>Arya, Rina (2009). "Painting the Pope: An Analysis of Francis Bacon's ''Study After Velázquez's Portrait of Innocent X''". ''Literature and Theology'', '''23''' (1), 33–50.</ref> He created several [[expressionism|expressionist]] variations of this piece in the 1950s; however, Bacon's paintings sometimes presented a more gruesome image of Innocent. One such famous variation, entitled ''[[Figure with Meat]]'' (1954), shows the pope between two halves of a bisected cow.<ref>{{Citation |last=Bacon |first=Francis |title=Figure with Meat |date=1954 |url=https://www.artic.edu/artworks/4884/figure-with-meat |access-date=28 August 2023}}</ref>

Some South American artists also paid tribute to him such as [[Fernando Botero]] with his portraits of oversized characters extracted from some of Vélasquez paintings<ref>{{Cite magazine |title=Fernando Botero and His Remakes of Classic Masterpieces |date=2023-04-19 |magazine=Daily Art Magazine}}</ref> and [[Herman Braun-Vega]] with his series ''Velasquez stripped bare accompanied by the Menines'' from which the main polyptych is exhibited at the [[Museum of Antioquia]] in [[Medellín]], Colombia<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gutíerrez |first=Nydia |date=2014-02-26 |title=Guía #74: 68, 70, 72. Bienales de Arte Coltejer |url=https://issuu.com/museodeantioquia/docs/guia_coleccionable_en_curvas |access-date=2025-03-29 |website=Issuu |publisher=Museo de Antioquia |pages=7-8 |language=es |format=PDF |publication-place=Medellín, Colombie |publication-date=2014-02-26}}</ref> and the quadriptych ''Velasquez going to his easel'' is at the [[Blanton Museum of Art]] in Austin, Texas.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://blanton.emuseum.com/objects/14098/velazquez-yendo-a-su-caballete-de-la-serie-velaquez-mis-a-n |title=Velásquez Going to His Easel (From the series Veláquez Stripped Bare)}}</ref>