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A 7 page research paper that examines representative paintings of the career of Vermeer, Dutch artist of the seventeenth century. Works examined include View of Delft, Artist in His Studio and Diana and Her Companions, among others. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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70). One reason why his work is virtually unattainable by collections lies in the fact that he did not produce a large mass of work. According to Hughes, the first
rule of artistic survival is to leave behind a large body of work (70). Either Vermeer painted little or few of his paintings have survived. The present count of
known paintings is 34 (Hughes 70). It is because of this that his work had little influence on the generation of artists that followed him, and did not garner much
attention, even in his native Holland, until the nineteenth century (Hughes 70). However, today, his genius is very much appreciated and his expertise admired. By the time Vermeer was
in his early 30s, he had developed a distinctive style for rendering light and texture (Hughes 70). Rather than build up forms with continuous movements of the brush, he utilized
tiny luminous highlights, "dots and spots," which serve to bring dissolved areas of light into focus (Hughes 70). The result is that the viewer has the feeling that one sees
every crumb of a cut loaf of bread, every thread in a tapestry (Hughes 70). The framing of his pictures is also remarked upon by critical opinion. In his
View of Delft (c. 1658), an oil canvas in the Mauritshuis collection, The Hague, Vermeer carries the eye of the viewer from the people walking in the lower left foreground
across the line of mercantile buildings and houses behind the city wall , past the stone bridge in the center, with the steeple of the church rising in the
background, to the moored boats and drawbridge on the extreme right (Fleming 265). In this horizontal sweep, the viewer sees how Vermeer treats horizontal space, which makes no effort to
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