Girl with a Pearl Earring is a famous Dutch painting by Johannes Vermeer. Its location is The Royal Picture Gallery “Mauritshuis” known in English as the “Maurice House” in the Netherlands. Little information is known about this painting but can be dated back to the seventeenth century.
The painting is simply oil on canvas yet is also simply boring. The girl who is represented in the painting has no expression or no emotion. There are too many flaws within this painting because the viewer has to think too much into the meaning behind this piece of art. Maybe she is a symbol of innocence or maybe she is just a random girl the artist chose to use for his masterpiece. Her beauty is typical and her features are not memorable. The artist should try to display his ideas more clearly and distinctively.
Johannes Vermeer chose to use a certain color scheme. The use of a dark background hides any creativity the artist used. It is dull and monotonous. Although the girl is soft and looks extremely pure, the background is almost as dreary as her beauty. His choice of color does not show emotion or feeling towards the image.
Overall the painting is still seen as a masterwork today yet for which reasons? The Girl with a Pearl Earring is mysteriously signified to be tiresome. Referred to the Mona Lisa of the north the painting is undeveloped and spitefully put together.
I liked the first 3 paragraphs, but the last one was hard to understand. I think some of your word choices were just difficult when all put together. Other than that, good job. It flowed nicely.
ReplyDeleteI thought both reviews were well-written, but they both seem to have the exact same structure which kind of threw me off a bit. I'd have to agree though, they did flow nicely.
ReplyDeleteI also noticed that both reviews basically followed the same structure. It might have been more interesting if you brought up different points in each review rather than reversing your opinion. It was kind of funny how you refer to the painting as a "masterpiece" although you are writing a negative review. =)
ReplyDeleteGood flow. You made solid points and were able to back them up.
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