Johannes Vermeer, Girl with a Pearl Earring발음듣기
Johannes Vermeer, Girl with a Pearl Earring
(classical music) [Voiceover] We're in the Mauritshuis in the Hague, and we're looking at probably their most famous painting.발음듣기
[Voiceover] Well, I would say not just their most well-known painting, but maybe one of the most well-known paintings generally. But only recently.발음듣기
[Voiceover] It's a painting that really seems to have ascended in the late 20th century, and it's interesting how our society picks out certain paintings for fame and that people really fall in love with, and perhaps it's because this was the centerpiece of a film, this was the centerpiece of a novel, and perhaps because we know so little about the painting.발음듣기
Now, we should be careful here, because this may look like a portrait to us, but, in fact, it's not a portrait.발음듣기
[Voiceover] This is known as a tronie, that is, a representation of a character, of a particular type of person.발음듣기
The way that we have, for instance, in modern American situation comedies, you have the villain, you have the hero, you have a certain type of person.발음듣기
[Voiceover] And we think this is a exotic type, because of her turban and her clothing seems foreign, and also that rather over-sized pearl earring.발음듣기
[Voiceover] And the way that we see her from the side, but she turns towards us, and so there's something momentary, there's something very alluring, that we're not addressing her directly.발음듣기
They're both paintings that really open up possibilities for interpretation with no one correct answer.발음듣기
[Voiceover] So much so that somebody was able to produce an entire novel based on this single painting that we know so little about.발음듣기
What we do know about this painting, though, is that it's technique is really quite extraordinary.발음듣기
The subtlety of light is stunning, in the way in which the reflectivity of the pearl is cast against the darkness of her neck.발음듣기
Some art historians have suggested that he only produced perhaps two or three paintings a year.발음듣기
[Voiceover] But it's so momentary, just like we look at Dutch landscapes and we have a sense of the passage of time as the clouds move across the landscape.발음듣기
Here we have that same sense of a figure who's just turned her head and is about to speak with us or is about to engage us, but we don't know what about.발음듣기
[Voiceover] And that our eyes are just in the process of focusing on her as she meets our gaze.발음듣기
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