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Is she turning towards you or away from you? No one can agree. She’s the subject of Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer’s “Girl with the Pearl Earring,” a painting often referred to as the ‘Mona Lisa of the North.’ But what makes this painting so captivating? James Earle explains how this work represents the birth of a modern perspective on economics, politics, and love.
Lesson by James Earle, animation by Tess Martin.
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Vermeer. The Complete Works
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A Real Vermeer
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Vermeer. The Complete Works (Bibliotheca Universalis)
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Tim's Vermeer
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Vermeer cheated
The animation in Ted videos is art itself
Okay but why does the narrator’s voice sound so relaxing? Like, if he was my history teacher, I’d actually listen in class.
eunha-ya
Eunha in sunny summer.
Beautiful painting.
I’ve always thought she was turning towards you because her eyes are looking at you. Have you ever tried to turn away while focusing on something to your side? It actually hurts my eye muscles to do so. You naturally follow your gaze when you walk and drive; this is no exception.
I didn’t even notice that it just a smudge and not a real pearl
My teacher has that painting in his classroom. He said a former student of his painted it. And I have to say, that former student of his must be really talented because it looks like the exact replica of the original.
This painting always makes me feel as if the girl was looking at me from her own era, and could tell I am looking back at her.
I’ve noticed, the paintings that are magnificent and include someone in it are the ones that we don’t know of the identity or history of the person in the painting.
Why is MONA LISA considered masterpiece?
Part of it is expert use of light. Part of it is art experts instructing everyone on why this is a masterpiece.
She looks like my cousin
This video made my jaw drop.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BkUUWLglN1H/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=1yfelipa5llf
Were studying this at my school lol
Onother grand story to make a simple things valueable to masses.. Dont spread this non sense. This is the reason why a simple things gets glammed bec of media spreads it.. Focus on knowledge that cab be usefull to have a great big world earth.
Can someone tell me the name of the other paintings mentioned in the video?
She’s really pretty but she scares tf out of me
because he was connected to rembrandt.
Pollock: lul
Has anyone read the book by Tracy Chevalier? I recently made a review on it. I loved how history and fiction were weaved together seamlessly. And I wonder what other people who love the painting thought of the story.
She resembles Shelley Duvall
I see beauty in art.
But see confusion in its analysis
Art doesn’t lie …
KISS
Some of the painting’s popularity may be down to the fact that she is a babe, or at least to today’s eyes… Would anybody still fancy the old moaning Lisa, after all?
Watch the movie by the same name.
While I was standing in front of the original at The Hague for 10 to 12 minutes,dozens of morons were snapping photos.
From PERSIA, ArmeniA, Israel, GoergiA with Passion
These portraits are famous because the women have no eyebrows so it makes you question what they’re doing/thinking
‘just a smudge of paint’
Now I can’t unsee it. Ugh.
I thought I had no taste for paintings and it would always be like that…..but this great artist’s paintings are just so amazing and captivating that I hv changed my mind…..