Two Lancaster University artists have had works featured in a new book documenting an exhibition celebrating Diego Velázquez’s masterpiece, Las Meninas.

Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts' Painting Lecturers, Pip Dickens and James Quin were among 62 artists selected to participate in the exhibition which toured art venues from General Practice, Lincoln to Oceans Apart, Salford, Manchester and Pineapple Black, Middlesbrough in 2020-21.

The exhibition featured a wide variety of different artistic responses to the Spanish painter’s masterpiece - arguably the most widely interpreted of all paintings (including drawing, sculpture, text, print and film as well as painting).

‘Enough is Definitely Enough’ is a newly released book documenting the exhibition. It introduces the relative art novice to the links between contemporary art practice and art history, while allowing the expert to find alternative ways of looking at one of the world’s greatest paintings.

Pip Dickens said: “Artists inspire one another, and Velazquez is, by far, the painter's favourite - Dali was obsessed with him. Picasso, Goya and Degas produced many responses to his work . His paintings seem to transcend time and remain fresh and intriguing - I never tire of studying his work and it was wonderful to be part of this homage."

James Quin said: "Velasquez’s Las Meninas falls, I would argue, into a category of painting that Mieke Bal refers to as ‘sticky images’, images that decelerate the gaze and dilate time, a visual entanglement that demands attentive looking. I was thrilled to have been asked to take part in Enough is Definitely Enough – a statement manifestly erroneous in relation to Las Meninas, and welcomed the invitation to take the time to look again at Velasquez’s masterpiece."