"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

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The Creation were an English rock band, formed in 1966. Their best-known songs are “Making Time”, which was one of the first rock songs to feature a guitar played with a bow, and “Painter Man”, which made the Top 40 in the UK Singles Chart in late 1966, and reached No. 8 in the German chart in April 1967. It was later covered by Boney M in 1979, and reached the No. 10 position in the UK chart. “Making Time” was used in the movie Rushmore.

Creation biographer Sean Egan defined their style as “a unique hybrid of pop, rock, psychedelia and the avant garde.”