“How do you paint your own slave?“ Painter Julie Mehretu Analyzes Velázquez | The Artist Project

“Looking at his expression I’m moved, almost to tears. That’s not often that a painting can do that.“ Julie Mehretu on Velázquez’s Juan de Pareja The Artist Project is an online series in which artists respond to works of art in The Met’s encyclopedic collection. Now available as a book published by Phaidon in cooperation with The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Purchase a copy: reference/the-artist-project-what-artists-see-when-they-look-at-art/invt/80037399