Girl With a Pearl Earring is considered as the most famous masterpiece of Johannes Vermeer, who was a Dutch artist. This oil painting was born in the Golden Time of Art Centre--Netherlands; although it is only as the same size as an octavo, no flaw is found on it. Some kind of amorphous artistic fascination attracts innumerable people including artists, poets, writers, art critics and so on. The maiden in peace gives soul to the marvelous oil painting.
Girl with a Pearl Earring
The glance of the young lady can catch all the viewers' heart; her eye contact looks so pure and innocent that it is easily to take her for the angel. Set off by the black background, a sort of peculiar charming of the young lady is given out; the maiden figure is just like a bright light fire in darkness, shining and smiling. She is sitting sideways, turning to us, and parting slightly her lips. Sinking into blurred thought, her fleeting glimpse seems a little mysterious. Because of this, this oil painting has been named as "the Mona Lisa of North" or "the Dutch Mona Lisa". No one knows why she smiles and under what circumstances Vermeer created this surprising artwork. Beyond that, the status of this young lady is also an eternal mystery just like Mona Lisa.
When back to the painter of this oil painting, Johannes Vermeer, it can be found little information in art history about him. As one of the most important representatives of art in the seventeenth century in Netherlands, he was always working in silence. Albeit he was not so hot as his contemporaries such as Rubens, Vermeer created a peerless contribution in art by the exquisite lines and compatible hues in his paintings especially in the Girl with a Pearl Earring.
