Diego, the cousin and Francisco Lezcano, Velazquez, in Tiff cats, Madrid, 1936 .
Diego de Acedo, nicknamed El Primo, and Francisco Lezcano have enjoyed in this world of a rank equal to or lower than the dogs if I had not done Velázquez into immortality through the front door . Lezcano Acedo and two dwarfs were attached to the large cast of buffoons of the court of Philip IV. The paintings displayed are large, five feet high by eighty-five centimeters wide. The portraits of the Infanta Margarita and Maria Teresa measure the same. It is also identical look of the painter on his models, whether children or dwarfs human, without praise or compassion. Velazquez is not God and no se siente llamado a juzgar un mundo que ya ha encontrado hecho y sin remedio; su misión se ciñe a reproducirlo tal cual es, y a eso se aplica. Obviamente Lezcano padece idiocia; probablemente Acedo también. A pesar de sus escasas luces, o quizá para resaltar el hecho, los dos bufones hacen cosas que requieren un mínimo de inteligencia y de aprendizaje, dos cualidades de las que carecen: El Primo sostiene un libro abierto casi tan voluminoso como él mismo; Lezcano coge un mazo de cartas como si fuera a repartir juego. La página abierta del libro de Acedo parece escrita e incluso ilustrada, pero sólo es un truco habitual en Velázquez: vistos de cerca, letra y dibujo sólo son una mancha uniforme. Lo mismo ocurre con la deck. Clowns occupy most of the canvas, to the right of each composition is the outline of the Sierra de Guadarrama, the remoteness of the mountains and the lack of other places regarding the dwarfs in the field, the light, at a time later, the group suggests abandonment. The majesty of the mountains in the background and foreground, the paradigm of smallness and helplessness.
Dwarves do not answer. Look ahead, not the viewer, but to something else, surely that Velazquez himself is painting, perhaps to infinity. This indifference does not surprise Anthony, who did not expect more. For him, the dwarf represent the people of Madrid, silent companions on a journey into the abyss.
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