A High Note by the Dutch Master of Harmony: Vermeer's 'Young Woman Standing at a Virginal'
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- Опубликовано: 22 окт 2024
- Take a close look at Vermeer's 'Young Woman Standing at a Virginal'. Join curator Bart Cornelis to explore the themes of love and harmony in this picture. He describes the context of Vermeer's small oeuvre, many of which capture musical activities inside, as well as another of his paintings in the National Gallery Collection, which is probably this painting's pendant pair.
Bart describes the artist's technique, particularly the use of light and distribution of forms across the composition. Vermeer radically stage managed the scene without fully documenting every object.
Vermeer's 'Young Woman Standing at a Virginal' is on loan to the National Galleries Scotland: National, Edinburgh in 2024.
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I love a hardcore formalist analysis. Very well done look at form, color, line, and composition.
Thank you !!!
Sehr interessant und informativ.
Please more of your excellent commentary……for this is the BEST of social media today……
As always; very educative.
Thanks very much. 💫
Really enjoyed this. Thank you.
Thanks for watching!
It's a wonderful painting
Thank you for opening my eyes to the true depths of these paintings - a revelation to me.
Our pleasure!
Amazingly well understood and wonderfully interpreted interpretation of this beautiful painting.
Thank you for the detailed description of this piece of art, it really helps to get a better understanding of what the artist wanted to portray to us.
Such beautiful explanation of an extraordinary artwork opens up a whole new world to the eyes of viewer where the beauty of every single detail in Vermeer's work captivates the mind of the delighted observer like nothing else!!😊😊❤❤
Vermeer is one of my favorite artists. 🎨🖼🖌
On the tiles near the floor are images of children’s games. I’ve seen such tiles in the Muiden Castle.
This was very well done. Thank you!
Interesting!
the comparison to "a modern photographer" may be more than just offhand.
Vermeer was noted for his attention to the Cartier Bresson "moment".
(who, interestingly posed many of them, and in later life turned to painting)
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Cupid has no arrow. Has he shot it already? And what has he in his hand?
I think it is Cupid, and he might be holding a bow in his hand. There are many interpretations of Cupid, and in some paintings, he still has an arrow in his hand.
A High Note by the Dutch Master of Harmony: Vermeer's 'Young Woman Standing at a Virginal' 1129am 26.7.24 maybe it was a given she'd be in love but, in her own mind, she feels nothing.... hence the, seeming, barren state of cupid's bow... old cupid may even be in the act of stringing it with an arrow or could be putting his bow back... she doesn't look like she's been turned down or left in the lurch but her mona lisa smirk suggests she might have done the dirty on someone and left him in the lurch - these things are hardly ever touched upon in chocolate box imagery. are we not sick of the Dutch school? what of the english school...... however tawdry(?)
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Phenomenal analysis. What of the woman's left hand and arm? The arm is at an unconvincing angle hardly in keeping with Vermeer's meticulous foreshortening, and the hand is unreadable in a way that makes no sense in the context of so much clear detail. Was this a later retouching?
I'm a little disappointed there was no discussion about the object in Cupid's raised hand. A playing card? I'm not sure what it is or what to make of it, but it seems a prominent element of his presence in the painting. Anyone know anything about it?
In the picture of the wall, Cupid holds up a card. And immediately I think of John Lyly's poem -
CUPID and my Campaspe play'd
At cards for kisses; Cupid paid:
He stakes his quiver, bow, and arrows,
His mother's doves, and team of sparrows;
Loses them too; then down he throws
The coral of his lip, the rose
Growing on's cheek (but none knows how);
With these, the crystal of his brow,
And then the dimple on his chin;
All these did my Campaspe win:
And last he set her both his eyes-
She won, and Cupid blind did rise.
O Love! has she done this to thee?
What shall, alas! become of me?
So...is Cupid waving a pack of cards to suggest good odds of love progressing here?
He sees like a photographer because he was using a camera obscura no?