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Everyday object art – Vermeer

31 octombrie – Flashback

On a day like today, Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer* was born.
Vermeer’s girl with a pearl earring created with found objects
[Elf, 7A].



* Johannes, Jan or Johan Vermeer (October 1632 – December 1675) was a Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. Vermeer was a moderately successful provincial genre painter in his lifetime. He evidently was not wealthy, leaving his wife and children in debt at his death, perhaps because he produced relatively few paintings.

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