After discussing Chevalier‘s Girl with a Pearl Earring and listening to Berger talks about how critics mystifies art. Art is no more for the worthy, like Maria says, “It’s a shame such a fine painting is to go only to the baker (123). Vermeer’s works of art can be seen by millions, and still treated as a holy relic, but somewhere a teenage girl is wearing a shirt portraying the mystification of to who really is The Girl with a Pearl Earring was to hundreds of people, when she walks down the sidewalk in New York City. NYC’s bystanders viewing her shirt and then questioning the mystification of Johannes Vermeer past arts of works of the Dutch Golden Age. Chevalier writes in her book, “I wanted to wear the mantle and the pearls. I wanted to
