Word: vermeer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Solitude he wishes you as well, but not solitude without a frame. Choose creative times and places to be by yourself. In museums, for instance, where you may confront Vermeer or Velazquez eye to eye. On summer Sundays, too, when you may be alone with the city in its most clear and wistful light: the mirrored buildings angled like kitchen knives, the Hopper stores dead quiet, the city's poor dazed like laundry hung out to dry on their fire escapes. For contrast, seek real country roads, tire-track roads straddling islands of weeds and rolling out into white haze...
...schooling and kept their older children at home, whereas French and English children were ordinarily sent out as apprentices at age seven. With more light, more privacy and more children came a stronger sense of family life -- comfort is what we see in the interiors of De Hooch and Vermeer...
...transfer of several colleagues from English prisons to jails in Northern Ireland. The ransom was refused. Eight days later, the works were recovered. This time, seven of the less valuable paintings were found abandoned the afternoon of the theft. Still missing are masterpieces by Gainsborough, Goya, Rubens and Vermeer...
There are only about 60 Watteau paintings on whose authenticity all experts agree, and his life is obscure. Since the Renaissance there have been few great artists about whom less is known than Watteau. He is almost as much of an enigma as Vermeer. He was born in Valenciennes in 1684, the son of a Flemish roof tiler. Until a few years before, Valenciennes was part of Flanders, not France; and Watteau's Flemish origins may have had more than a casual meaning to him, since the main influence on his work was Rubens. Nothing is known about...
...peasant hat. The lighting is soft and natural throughout; the camera's gaze is direct and steady (and it is returned just as steadily by most of the subjects). Snowdon has mastered an elegance that never loses its simplicity. Indeed, in his best portraits-for instance, a serene, Vermeer-like study of the elderly Lady Mosley, one of the Milford sisters-the two qualities intensify each other...