Obituary

Velázquez's painting of a painter painting a painting became the internet's image of infinite regression — mirrors, frames within frames, everyone looking at everyone. It died when someone posted it in a mirror selfie and the recursion crashed the timeline.

Portrait: Diego Velázquez · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Born

2015

Died

2020

Cause of death

Got too meta

Last sighting

A 'meta' caption, 2020

Resting place

Section K, Row 2

Category

art