{"id":40243,"date":"2025-01-21T21:23:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T21:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/art\/vermeers-girl-with-a-pearl-earring-lines-and-colors\/"},"modified":"2025-01-21T21:23:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T21:23:00","slug":"vermeers-girl-with-a-pearl-earring-lines-and-colors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=40243","title":{"rendered":"Vermeer\u2019s Girl with a Pearl Earring \u2013 Lines and Colors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.linesandcolors.com\/images\/2025-01\/vermeer_earring_reversed_450a.jpg\" alt=\"A Fresh Look: Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring - reversed\"\/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.linesandcolors.com\/images\/2025-01\/vermeer_earring_reversed_450b.jpg\" alt=\"A Fresh Look: Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring - reversed\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Hopefully \u2014 even if only for a moment \u2014 you got to see in the top two images Vermeer\u2019s iconic painting with fresh eyes. The images are reversed left to right.<\/p>\n<p>It is not an uncommon practice for artists to pause in the process of working on a painting or other artwork and view the work in a mirror. This briefly provides a fresh view of the work, a contrast to the the kind of familiarity that makes it difficult to see something objectively.<\/p>\n<p>We can use the same effect to view images that are so culturally familiar they are difficult to see in the way we might have when first encountering them. The effect doesn\u2019t last long; we soon become accustomed to the \u201cnew\u201d view, but it\u2019s nice to get a fresh view of something so familiar.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve included an image of the painting in its normal orientation at the bottom.<\/p>\n<p>Wikimedia Commons has a high resolution image of the painting, available from <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:1665_Girl_with_a_Pearl_Earring.jpg\">this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I did the same thing back in <a href=\"https:\/\/linesandcolors.com\/2006\/05\/19\/la-giaconda-the-mona-lisa-flopped-for-your-viewing-pleasure\/\">2006 with Da Vinci\u2019s Mona Lisa<\/a>, and in the process, I believe I gained some insight into her enigmatic smile\/not smile.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hopefully \u2014 even if only for a moment \u2014 you got to see in the top two images Vermeer\u2019s iconic painting with fresh eyes. The images are reversed left to right. 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