Mitchell Grafton, Self-Portrait
Painted by the 17th-century Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer, Girl with a Pearl Earring is one of the most recognized masterpieces. The focal point of the painting is the earring. Many of the women Vermeer painted are associated with pearls. A strength of the painting is its use of light, illuminating the girls face and highlighting the earring. Critics suggest that an earring of this type was unlikely to exist at this time, and it has been speculated that Vermeer painted the earring from imagination. Vermeer worked slowly and with great care, using bright colors and sometimes expensive pigments, with a preference for cornflower blue and yellow. He is particularly renowned for his masterly treatment and use of light.
Johannes Vermeer, painting (circa 1667)
Adam Lister, fine art inkjet pigment
Hans Westbeek, digital painting
HidenSeek, painting
John Paul Pietrus, photo
Larry Moss and Kelly Cheatle, airigami: balloon art
Mariel Clayton, Barbie art
aebum joo, pixelated art
Robert Silvers, photomosaic on aluminum
pageboy, painting: Robot Dinosaur Vermeer
Zucchi, photo collage
Andrea Matarazzo, digital painting
domadoll, doll art
KristenCumings, jelly bean art!
millersye, painting (the bunny girl with ears but no earring)
John Diehl, painting
Meowza Katz, à la Simpsons
Tulio Fagim, collage
yumyumshisha, digital painting
Tracy Chevalier wrote a historical novel, also entitled Girl with a Pearl Earring (1999), fictionalizing the circumstances of the painting's creation. In the novel, Johannes Vermeer becomes close with a fictional servant named Griet, whom he hires as an assistant and has sit for him as a painting model while wearing one of his wife's pearl earrings.The novel inspired a 2003 film by Peter Webber, staring Scarlett Johansson as the girl with the pearl earring. The film uses a bright color scheme as in Vermeer's paintings.
Forlorn Existence, painting (portrait of Scarlett Johansson)
vianaarts, ballpoint pen (portrait of Scarlett Johansson)
street art
street art
street art
dirty car art
Vermeer’s light
on a chicken’s head
puts the lie to form
allows his love
for content
or not.
on a chicken’s head
puts the lie to form
allows his love
for content
or not.
George Bowering, in Vermeer’s Light: Poems 1996-2006
Dorothee Golz, photo collage
What an interesting post! Vermeer is one of my favorite painters. Of course it's his use of light and the glow of color... Love all the other interpretations, but I think my favorite is Mitchell Grafton's with the camera!
ReplyDeleteOf coarse the original is beautiful! Hiden Seek is my fav of the others.
ReplyDeleteAwesome post! Vermeer is one of my favorite painters and this is one of my favorite of his works. Very interesting to see contemporary interpretations of such an iconic image.
ReplyDeleteThis was way way cool. <3. Makes me feel inspired 'n' jazz. When I was in high school, we had a project to replicate famous works of art (a friend did replicate the painting featured here), but we were allowed to twist things up a bit, so long as we didn't stray from the point of the project. Mine was Cat on a Yellow Pillow by Franz Marc, and instead of painting a white cat, I started painting my black and white cat. I never finished it, but I feel like I need to start it again.
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