The portrait of Infanta Isabel Clara Eugenia” is a valid start point to illustrate the ways how Velázquez defies the conventions of the portraits of the dwarfs. Velazquez impugnations are related to the stamental regime and, according Analisa Leppanen, scopic tradition of classicism. It has been suggested by Sveltana Alpers in Interpretation without Representation Velazquez defies classical representation patterns characterized incorporating the subject viewer perspective, as he does in Las Meninas through the Mirror. The lack of`a subject viewer as the main feature of classical representation had already been addressed by Foucault in the first chapter of the Order of things.In this paper we shall propose that Velazquez does engage the viewer in particular ways when it comes to the jester series . We will now perform a chronological tour on Velazquez portrait of jesters to show he overrides the characteristical absence of the viewer in classical scopic regime displaying the subjects in particular ways that incorporate the viewer in the scene.
Melania Moscoso, 2009 ©
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