how is the artist associated with recreations of classic?
Pablo Picasso paid homage to Velázquez in 1957 when he recreated "Las Meninas" in 44 variations and Salvador Dalí, created in 1958 a work entitled " Velázquez Painting the Infanta Margarita With the Lights and Shadows of His Own Glory".
Diego Velázquez
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 "Las Meninas" in 44 variations, in his characteristic style. Although Picasso was concerned that his reinterpretations of Velázquez's painting would be seen merely as copies rather than unique representations, the enormous works—including the largest he had produced since " Guernica " in 1937—obtained a position of importance in the canon of Spanish art.

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". 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.

The Anglo-Irish painter Francis Bacon 
here right in front of us is the best painting in the exhibit UNANSWERABLE what is this all about? UNANSWERABLE what kind of a work is this? UNANSWERABLE what can you tell me about its composition? UNANSWERABLE what can you tell me about "las meninas" as culmination of themes in velázquez? It is a 1656 painting in the Museo del Prado in Madrid, by Diego Velázquez, the leading artist of the Spanish Golden Age what can you tell me about the style of the above mentioned artist? He rarely signed his pictures, he rejected the pomp that characterized the portraiture of other European courts and he is known for using a rather limited palette, but he mixed the available paints with great skill to achieve varying hues. can you name any of his other works? Portraits of Philip, Elisabeth of Bourbon, Don Baltasar Carlos and Francisco de Quevedo. when was the aforesaid last work done? UNANSWERABLE
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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 "Las Meninas" in 44 variations, in his characteristic style. Although Picasso was concerned that his reinterpretations of Velázquez's painting would be seen merely as copies rather than unique representations, the enormous works—including the largest he had produced since " Guernica " in 1937—obtained a position of importance in the canon of Spanish art. 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".