What a beautiful -although old - very modern - work of art. Your drawing is beautiful also and I feel the love. Looking at some notes I wrote for myself in April - "looking at/sensing a work of art I think about the hand, mind, soul which made it...."
Isn't it beautiful? I love the stillness, the quality of light. I love that isn't full of drama and movement, but just a quiet moment. Wouldn't it be amazing to see the real painting? A Vermeer exhibition came to The Art Institute of Chicago ages ago, but I was young and foolish and didn't go, and now I regret it. I read on Wikipedia that Vermeer was a slow painter--which meant less income--and that he used expensive pigments. When he died, he left debt. That's a tiny piece of a real life puzzle that we can't put together now with any assurance of real accuracy, but I found those little fragments of fact moving. I imagine the pressures of life pulling him toward a cheaper, more efficient way of exercising his profession, while he remained unable to imagine a different way of painting than the way he painted.
Yes I would love to see the original. Even on my tiny screen the detail is amazing down to the tiny cracks in the back wall. I especially love the colors and the composition. He was a master and the subject is so personal.
What a beautiful -although old - very modern - work of art. Your drawing is beautiful also and I feel the love. Looking at some notes I wrote for myself in April - "looking at/sensing a work of art I think about the hand, mind, soul which made it...."
ReplyDeleteIsn't it beautiful? I love the stillness, the quality of light. I love that isn't full of drama and movement, but just a quiet moment. Wouldn't it be amazing to see the real painting? A Vermeer exhibition came to The Art Institute of Chicago ages ago, but I was young and foolish and didn't go, and now I regret it. I read on Wikipedia that Vermeer was a slow painter--which meant less income--and that he used expensive pigments. When he died, he left debt. That's a tiny piece of a real life puzzle that we can't put together now with any assurance of real accuracy, but I found those little fragments of fact moving. I imagine the pressures of life pulling him toward a cheaper, more efficient way of exercising his profession, while he remained unable to imagine a different way of painting than the way he painted.
DeleteI think it's great that you're studying from the old masters. I'm thinking about following your example. Keep drawing!
ReplyDeleteI hope you do follow "my example." I'm having fun with it.:)
DeleteYes I would love to see the original. Even on my tiny screen the detail is amazing down to the tiny cracks in the back wall. I especially love the colors and the composition. He was a master and the subject is so personal.
ReplyDeleteIndeed!
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