When I lived in NY, I used to visit The Metropolitan Museum just because it made me feel so good. Looking at art that are made from these fantastic artists makes me happy.
One artist that makes my heart STOP is VERMEER!!!
Vermeer was a Dutch painter, lived and died in Delft. He was born 1632 so a 1600's painter. In his paintings I always fall in live in the Godness of the colors. The light/sheen in his paintings ar like God Himself was the painter.
The Man's work is like Poetry.
A movie, probably EVERYBODY knows is : The Girl With the Pearl Earring. With Scarlet Johansson played the girl. It's based from Vermeers Painting with the same title. Look at the SHEEN of the PEARL. Wow!!!
Enjoy the beauty.
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There is a new novel about Vermeer’s early years as an apprentice called FAITH.
In April of 1653, Joannis Vermeer married Catharina Bolnes. He was twenty and she just twenty-one. The marriage had been opposed for numerous reasons: He was still an apprentice; He had no money; He came from a social class which was beneath hers and he was not a Catholic. Still, their marriage endured until his untimely death at the age of forty-three. FAITH is the story of three winter months before his marriage, the most important months of his life. It was a time when his ideas about art, technique and 'reality' were being formed, ideas that would be developed and reflected in all his later work. FAITH is also a love story, a 'probable' love story since nothing is known about the artist's life during this period. The people and events around him in this story are real. There is nothing in this book that could not have happened. Most of it must have.
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thank you!!!! i will buy this book/ comment.
whoever you are who gave me this info: THANK YOU!!!!
best,
lindha
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