the girl with a pearl earring
a quick post.
yesterday i visited the mauritshuis, the royal picture gallery. its a really old building that is now a meseum for some of the most beautiful, and old works of art by dutch painters. the mauritshuis houses some of the most widely famous paintings by artists like rembrandt and vermeer. the museum has a really large collection, paintings that they’ve collected over the years from private collections of the dutch and english noble families.
all the paintings were really beautiful. there were portraits and still drawings and landscape sceneries. the portraits especially are really stunning. they just dont draw like that anymore. the expressions on the faces, the lines on their hands. so much attention has obviously been paid to the tiniest detail. the main attractions are, for obvious reasons, the vermeers and the rembrandts.
nothing in the novel or the film, i mean nothing, prepares you for the reverberations of the actual ‘girl with a pearl’ earring. she is nothing short of utterly gorgeous. it’s called the dutch mona lisa, and quite appropriately too. she looks right at you. the painting is really something, but the expression on her face is just something else altogether. i’m hoping my pictures come out well.
anyway, that was really nice. i’m not generally an art buff, or a museum buff, but i really enjoyed this. i was also alone, so i just took two whole hours and wondered from painting to painting. then i walked to near by mcdonald’s and waited for amrita’snhusband to come and get me. i wited for about 20 minutes and this dutch dude called alex tried to talk me into letting him take me out, and i was like ‘that’s ok.’ atleast he was nice about it. and i didnt’ laugh. what an achievement. 
hmmm… now what can make this well written commentary look even better ??…. i know !!!… photographs !!!… aint that a thought !!!…
Comment by SpectralCentroid — June 29, 2005 @ 11:41 am
did u watch the movie ‘girl with a pearl earring’? i was sorely disappointed .. ending was so abrupt..
Comment by savi3 — June 29, 2005 @ 3:08 pm
spectralcentroid : im old fashioned and happily so. i dont own a digital camera, quite by choice actually. so the pictures will have to wait till i’m home and i get everything developed together.
savi : i watched the movie, and loved it. read the book on which the movie is based, loved that too. the movie was just beautiful. so powerful and artisitic. i think the abrupt end was intentional, just another art-sy habit maybe?
Comment by electra — June 29, 2005 @ 5:50 pm
shucks… don’t they have photo printing shops in Europe…
Comment by SpectralCentroid — June 30, 2005 @ 4:43 am
i dunno i just wished i hadnt paid £6.00 to watch that movie.. it was kinda slow moving with a painful story line..
Comment by savi3 — July 1, 2005 @ 11:35 am
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