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Art of the Night

Lady Writing a Letter with Her Maid, by Johannes Vermeer (1670-1671).

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4 comments

1 Chyll Will   ~  Feb 15, 2010 5:42 pm
2 matt b   ~  Feb 15, 2010 9:36 pm

The use of light is flat-out astonishing.

3 RIYank   ~  Feb 15, 2010 10:37 pm

Wow.
To me it's not even the technical ability; it's the intellect. It's almost impossible to imagine the power of abstraction it took him to mentally decompose the shadows and light of a simple scene. Now PIXAR does it digitally, another amazing intellectual achievement, but the days of the lone artist genius might be over.

4 The Mick536   ~  Feb 16, 2010 8:52 am

It is all about the light.

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