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The Met's Copyist Program

Set up an easel in the galleries and paint the painting

The Met's Copyist Program

The Met has let artists work from originals in its galleries since 1872, and this short follows Jas Knight through a copy of Velázquez’s Juan de Pareja. His case for it is the good part: almost every painter before the twentieth century learned this way, and “you haven’t begun to see a painting until you’ve copied it.” Then the line that lands — Velázquez’s brain is on that canvas.

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