The Forgotten Master of Painting ―― Johannes Vermeer

? Johannes Vermeer (1632 65438+1October 31-kloc-0/675 65438+February 15) was a Dutch painter in the17th century. Like Rembrandt, Vermeer is called the greatest painter in the Golden Age of Holland. His representative works include The Girl with Pearl Earrings, The Maid Who Pour Milk, The Art of Painting, etc.

Vermeer's works are mostly paintings with customs themes, which are basically based on the ordinary life of citizens. The overall picture of his paintings is warm, comfortable and quiet, giving people a solemn feeling, which fully shows the preference of Dutch citizens for clean environment and elegant and comfortable atmosphere. His artistic style is also unique. His paintings are three-dimensional, exquisite in structure and bright and harmonious in color, especially good at expressing indoor light and space. Vermeer's paintings give people a sense of reality, which makes people feel a sense of reality in their faith besides the truth in daily life. He likes to use yellow, blue and gray, and he has an excellent grasp of color and handling of light. Usually the layout is simple and the size is not big, but it often gives people a huge visual impact. He used the combination of tiny dots (stippling) and was good at using light sources to create a flowing and elegant atmosphere in the picture, so he was called the master of light and shadow.

The Girl with Pearl Earrings is Vermeer's greatest work and is known as the Mona Lisa in the Netherlands. For more than 300 years, the world has been amazed at the woman in this painting: the soft lines of clothes, the changes in the light and shade of earrings, especially the woman's sideways look, embarrassment, smile and anger, which can only be compared with Mona Lisa's smile. The true identity of the woman in the painting, like Mona Lisa, is an eternal mystery.

Maid who pours milk Against the background of white wall, a simple and robust woman is making dairy products in the sidelight coming in from the window. There is a small basket hanging in the corner, and the table is full of food and bottles. The servant girl is pouring snow-white milk from the bottle, and her expression is stable and quiet. The painter absorbed this angle from the details of daily life and showed the vivid image of working women.

In this painting, the whole picture is completely frozen in time. Whether it's a woman washing clothes in an alley, a woman sitting in front of the door doing needlework, or a child playing on the side of the road, their original movements have completely stopped under Vermeer's brush. In front of this picture, our hearts are precipitated, emitting a faint sadness. In this sadness, we feel that the time around us is quietly passing between our toes.

Vermeer has been capturing subtle changes in light all his life. The color in the light seems to be his quiet inner thinking, capturing a glimpse of the residents in the light, and then showing it in the picture, penetrating every viewer's heart.