Girl with a Pearl Earring

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Girl with a Pearl Earring
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Girl with a Pearl Earring is considered as
the most famous masterpiece of Johannes
Vermeer, who was a Dutch artist. This oil
painting was born in the Golden Time of Art
CentreNetherlands, although it is only as the
same size as an octavo, no flaw is found on it.
Some kind of amorphous artistic fascination
attracts innumerable people including artists,
poets, writers, art critics and so on. The
maiden in peace gives soul to the marvelous oil
painting.
The glance of the young lady can catch all the
viewers' heart her eye contact looks so
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pure and innocent that it is easily to
take her for the angel. Set off by the
black background, a sort of peculiar charming of
the young lady is given out the maiden figure is
just like a bright light fire in darkness,
shining and smiling. She is sitting sideways,
turning to us, and parting slightly her lips.
Sinking into blurred thought, her fleeting
glimpse seems a little mysterious. Because of
this, this oil painting has been named as "the
Mona Lisa of North" or "the Dutch Mona Lisa". No
one knows why she smiles and under what
circumstances Vermeer created this
surprising artwork. Beyond that, the status of
this young lady is also an eternal mystery just
like Mona Lisa.
When back to the painter of this oil painting,
Johannes Vermeer, it can be found
little information in art history about him. As
one of the most important representatives of art
in the seventeenth century in Netherlands,
he was always working in silence. Albeit he
was not so hot as his contemporaries such as
Rubens, Vermeer created a peerless contribution
in art by the exquisite lines and
compatible hues in his paintings especially in
the Girl with a Pearl Earring.
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