Girl Pearl Earring

Edna’s artistic pursuits are very different than Madame Ratignolle’s. Edna’s art represents her quest for individuality (Boren 181). Her form of art does not provide pleasure or enrichment to her household. Instead, it takes her away from her family and her domestic duties (Dyer 87). Edna paints in her “atelier” (Chopin 579). Mr. Pontellier chides Edna for spending too much time in her atelier; he says that she would “be better employed contriving for the comfort of her family” (Chopin (579). Edna makes good progress in her painting; she dreams of “becoming an artist” (Chopin 584). However, her devotion to art is contrasted to that of novel’s true artist.

According to Graham Twigg, the plague, “spread rapidly and resulted in a death rate across Europe that for exceeded that produced in the region by any known disease organism in a single episode.” This shows how the disease would be able to attach itself and infect any other living organism; by infecting them, they would have the ability to spread the disease whether they liked it or not. No one had a choice. No one was safe, not even with their own family.

The bubonic plague was by far one of the worst epidemics that would strike in the Middle Ages. The disease would soon present itself in two different forms such as one that would infect the blood stream; second, infected the lungs causing a respiratory infection. Historian writer Barbara Tuchman would be able to catch the readers attention by using such vivid writing and detailed research. In her essay “This is the End of the World’ The Black Death,” Tuchman, avoids dullness by presenting examples to see and feel the awfulness of the plague.

In a girl with the pearl earring the protagonist, Griet, is sent to be a maid the artist Johannes Vermeer and his growing family. In this household she becomes close to Vermeer’s work, and eventually the secretive painting of Griet seeps out into the rest of the family and the town beyond.

Guiard paints her dress in a bright blue color that emphasizes all the attention and focus on herself. By painting her dress a bold and bright color in contrast to the dark and dull background, she highlights the subject of her art piece, which are women. Not only does the color of her dress bring the attention to her, but the emerald green chair she sits on also captivates the attention of the viewers. In this self portrait, the only bright and bold color used are the blue on her dress, the green on the chair and red on the chair on the right. These colors are used in areas surrounding the three women in the painting. She is presenting the idea of women empowerment, through her selective choice of putting color only around the three

This novel begins in the fall of 1666 in a small English village of Eyam, England. A plague strikes, almost like the Black Plague in Europe, and leaves everyone in the village quarantined to help themselves prevent further spread of the disease. Anne Frith, is a servant and maid to the newly village priest, Michael Mompellion. She cares for him because his wife, Elinor, is dead. Anne was married to Sam Frith at the age of fifteen

Mr. Clean is also just seen looking over her shoulder as if to judge how well she is doing instead of deciding to help her. Both Griet and the woman are treated as the workers of the house simply because they are of the female gender and so their respective family find it to be no problem to let them do all the work. The attitude of the other family members towards the females is described in both cases since women are seen as not good enough to do anything but clean around the house and give support to others. The other family members do not think that they are obliged to do the chores as long as females like Griet and the woman are around do it for them. This is unfair treatment to the females, because regardless of gender, all work should not be given to only one type of person and should be distributed equally.

Griet soon discovers from her farther that the man that is paying for her servitude is none other than the Dutch painter, Johannes Vermeer. The rest of the novel catalogs Griet experiences as she serves her patron Johannes Vermeer. He lives with his family, which consists of his wife Catharina, his mother-in-law Maria, and their numerous children. Tensions are high when Griet, a Protestant, begins to live with the Vermeer family, a family of Catholics.

 The Girl with a Pearl Earring and Mona Lisa are the two most famous portraits ever painted (Courtauld 36). The girl with a pearl earring follows the Mona Lisa painting, which is considered as the most famous painting. The girl with a pearl earring, by Johannes Vermeer, and the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci were created during the same historical time. Historians believe that Leonardo da Vinci created his art piece between 1503 and 1506. The girl with a pearl earring was created in 1665. The masterpieces were both created using oil. The medium for the girl with a pearl earring was oil and canvas while Mona Lisa was created using oil and wood. They were both from the genre of portrait art.

At first, Griet is viewed as an innocent girl, who is compelled to work as an maid due to her father’s incapability to provide for her family. She does not want to leave her family and go to an unknown place, but she has to; in order

The painting Woman With A Pearl Necklace was painted by Mary Cassatt in 1879. For this creation, she used a choice of bright colours, consisting of warm tones, with a use of positive space. Her style is impressionism, a 19th-century art movement based off of Paris-based artists. Impressionists' independent works

For hundreds of years people have wondered who is the girl in the portrait Girl with a Pearl Earring, painted by a Dutch artist

I am intrigued by the special powers being exhibited by the children and I also want to know how the powers occurred. I am curious as to how the plague began and what it did to the world’s population. Did we lose our ability to use and create technology? I imagine these questions will be fleshed out in other chapters and my curiosity is a healthy symptom of a reader that is interested in the story.

As Griet begins work as a maid in the Vermeer household, she has extensive responsibilities thrust upon her both from the Vermeers and her family. While there, Griet encounters many obstacles; the first being her relationship with her new mistress Catharina. “Catharina remained on the threshold. I did not dare enter before her. After an awkward moment she ordered, ‘Open the shutters, then. Not the window on the left. Just the middle and far windows. And only the lower part of the middle window’” (Chevalier, 32). Catharina’s instruction from Johannes creates a lot of tension between Griet and herself; beginning Catharina’s resentment of Griet. Catharina does not like the fact that Johannes allows a maid in his studio, but not her. As Griet’s time in the Vermeer household continues, Vermeer eventually chooses to paint Griet, even though she does not wish to be painted because of her class and position. For Griet, that means giving up the only thing she has left- her identity- for the sake of Vermeer’s painting. “He seemed to be waiting for something. My face began to strain with the fear that I was not giving him what he wanted. ‘Griet’, he added

The Mona Lisa has to be one of my favorite paintings of all time and has lead me to use this specific painting as a topic for this paper. Not to mention the love I have for Leonardo da Vinci. I, myself have always been drawn to da Vinci’s paintings and all of his other achievements that he has given us during his life. I, like Leonardo da Vinci love art and science just as much as it seems he did. He shares a love of art and a fondness for science. It also seems that he loves a good mystery, and the Mona Lisa just happens to be one clouded in mystery. And I too love a good mystery.