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Girl With A Pearl Earring.
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I've just been watching a documentary about Vermeer's painting. I spent about three months painting a copy (an exercise in learning how to shove paint around) and I found the programme very interesting.
Any ABers like the work (the original; not mine)?
Here's my copy.
https:/ /ibb.co /KwqYRk m
Any ABers like the work (the original; not mine)?
Here's my copy.
https:/
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Thanks, jno. The left (from the viewer's pov)side of her face is clumsy in the image, but that is partly due to the lighting of the photo and the physical texture of the laying-on of the paint. My 'original' looks better in real life.
I did a fairly good copy of the Milkmaid. The analysis of the geometry of the tabletop was fascinating (half an octagon), and the location of the perspective vanishing point turns out to be close to the bend on the inside of the maid's right elbow.
I did a fairly good copy of the Milkmaid. The analysis of the geometry of the tabletop was fascinating (half an octagon), and the location of the perspective vanishing point turns out to be close to the bend on the inside of the maid's right elbow.
^^^ That shouldn't matter, TW, as 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' isn't the original name for the work anyway. Vermeer called it 'Girl in a Turban'.
Atheist:
I think that this might be of interest to you:
https:/ /www.ma uritshu is.nl/e n/what- s-on/ex hibitio ns/inst allatio n-my-gi rl-with -a-pear l/
(Keep scrolling down for more and more reinterpretations of the work)
Atheist:
I think that this might be of interest to you:
https:/
(Keep scrolling down for more and more reinterpretations of the work)
Surprised that not many here seem to be interested or have a view on the original. The merit of the copy wasn't meant to be the point of the post. I love Vermeer's painting and I often kiss the girl when I come down the stairs in the middle of a summer's night for a glass of chilled rose: she often winks at me in a haughty but naughty way!
She was alive in 1665 and I'm just alive in 2023. The sadness of a 350 year gap between two humans! And all the other humans long ago and far in the future!
She was alive in 1665 and I'm just alive in 2023. The sadness of a 350 year gap between two humans! And all the other humans long ago and far in the future!