A Girl with a Pearl Earring Presentation

Presentation of

"Girl With a Pearl Earring"

What makes this painting so captivating, and why is it considered a masterpiece?

By Khulan Gendenjamts

Index

Cultural impact

JohannesVermeer

What impact has it today ?

Summery of Johannes Vermeer's life

Description

Conclusion

of the Girl with a Pearl Earring

collection of the Mauritshuis in The Hague

1 Johannes Vermeer

1632 - 1675

• Vermeer was a Dutch Baroque Period painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life.
• He worked slowly and with great care, and frequently used very expensive pigments.
• He is renowned for his masterly treatment and use of light in his work.
• Vermeer's reputation has grown, since the 19th century, and he is now one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age.

Detail of the painting The Procuress (1656), believed to be a self portrait by Vermeer

2 Description

• This painting is an oil on canvas, painted in 1665.

• It is 44.5 cm (17.5 in) high and 39 cm (15 in) wide.

• It is a representational painting.

• The painting is a tronie, the 17th-century Dutch description of a 'head'.

• It depicts a Dutch girl wearing an "exotic" golden dress with a white collar, an "oriental" blue and yellow turban, and a very large pearl as an earring.

• Mysterious : No identity, her gaze, has something to say, happy or sad ?

Other famous paintings by Vermeer

4. The Music Lesson

2. The Milkmaid

1662–1665

1657–1658

3. Girl Reading a Letter by an Open Window

1. The Art of Painting

1666–1668

1657–1659

3 Cultural Impact

In the last decades the "Girl with a Pearl Earring" made a huge impact in pop culture.

Girl with a Pierced Eardrum The Berkeley Square Hotel Bristol. Banksy, 2014.

3D recreations/statues

“You're so calm and quiet, you never say. But there are things inside you. I see them sometimes, hiding in your eyes.”

― Tracy Chevalier, Girl with a Pearl Earring

Girl with a Pearl Earring Book by Tracy Chevalier, 1999

Girl with a Pearl Earring Play by David Joss Buckley, 2008

Girl with a Pearl Earring Movie by Peter Webber, 2003

Conclusions

• It became iconic for the distinct position of the girl, her enigmatic gaze, the colors and the delicate quality of the light.

• Her puzzeling and unknown identity intrigues the viewers.

• She represents natural beauty and exaggerated wealth.
• It differs from Johannes Vermeer's other paintings.
• It made a huge cultural impact.

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