Parel
Parel, Tim Lowly © 2014, acrylic on panel, 14" x 17"
View large on white.
This is part of the re. Rainbow Girl project I am currently working on.
In Vermeer's iconic painting Meisje met de parel (Girl with a Pearl Earring) the pearl could be understood as suggesting the young woman possesses a beauty as "pure" as a pearl. That said, it seems possible that in the context of the burgeoning middle-class economy of 17th C. Netherlands the painting might have been perceived as being - at least implicitly - about desirability, towards possession. This understanding of the painting might be corroborated by the girl's gaze. By contrast, in this painting, Temma does not engage the viewer. At one point when my wife Sherrie was looking at the painting she said, "It looks like a pearl." She might have been referring to the surface of the paint, but I think there's a way that the painting points to the mysterious translucence / opacity of Temma's presence as something like–and, curiously, as beautiful as–a pearl.
Prints available at Imagekind
Parel
Parel, Tim Lowly © 2014, acrylic on panel, 14" x 17"
View large on white.
This is part of the re. Rainbow Girl project I am currently working on.
In Vermeer's iconic painting Meisje met de parel (Girl with a Pearl Earring) the pearl could be understood as suggesting the young woman possesses a beauty as "pure" as a pearl. That said, it seems possible that in the context of the burgeoning middle-class economy of 17th C. Netherlands the painting might have been perceived as being - at least implicitly - about desirability, towards possession. This understanding of the painting might be corroborated by the girl's gaze. By contrast, in this painting, Temma does not engage the viewer. At one point when my wife Sherrie was looking at the painting she said, "It looks like a pearl." She might have been referring to the surface of the paint, but I think there's a way that the painting points to the mysterious translucence / opacity of Temma's presence as something like–and, curiously, as beautiful as–a pearl.
Prints available at Imagekind