 | | 2014-02-11 01:06
From blog De Lune
Anika Smulovitz, Lip Liners
Anika Smulovitz, Lip Liners , 2003 There's a moment in Girl with a Pearl Earring in which the young narrator, Griet, finds herself in the subject's chair of her employer, Dutch Renaissance master Johannes Vermeer. Griet is his maid, but her keen eye and quiet demeanor have allured Vermeer, and they are both drawn into a complicated, silent love affair of mutual contingency, which leads to her becoming the subject of Vermeer's most seducing portrait. In this particular moment, Vermeer begins painting Griet with the request that she part her lips and leave her mouth open, just ever so slightly. It is that gesture of appearing to be in...
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