Girl with a Pearl Earring

artists are “tricksters”. Her art fluently expresses this. Grosse’s sculptures distort one’s point of view; one minute they feel like a giant and the next like an ant. This distortion helps people realize that perspective can be easily influenced, and that art has the ability to mold and transform them. Art distorts our perception of what things truly are, causing us to reflect on and learn from it. Through her novel Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier expresses that art is fiction, which can be tailored to suit the audiences’ personal experiences, no matter the style or form. Since everyone has experienced different relationships and events throughout their lives, people may…

Tracy Chevalier’s novel, Girl With a Pearl Earring, has very little basis in Vermeer’s masterpiece other than the same painter. Chevalier’s own internalized misogyny is evident in her use of archetypal female characters throughout this book, as well as her other works. Her personal bias influences the book so deeply, she refutes all historical fact in favor of rewriting the novels of the eighteenth century. Her complete lack of understanding of historical or artistic context and fact make her…

When asked about his worldview, Australian writer, Michael Leunig shared that “A world view is probably an expression of self”. I agree that one's’ worldviews stem from life experiences; however, more specifically, our worldviews come from our beliefs, which as we mature are adopted from those around us. Understanding the origins of our views can help us to evaluate and alter them in order to expand our knowledge and tolerance of other beliefs, cultures and social backgrounds. It can also alter…

I chose to watch “The Girl With a Pearl Earring” for my final movie critique. As I watched this movie, I quickly realized that most of the shots were taken from the waist up. Which lead very little to critique, especially the lower portion of the garments. Regardless, the characters did not have any major costume change or wore any costumes that were distinctive enough to dissect. The main character was a peasant so clearly the garment was very simple with no embellishment. What I decided to…

Throughout 17th century Holland, many people of the lower class sacrificed their life to improve the life of others important to them. People of the higher class didn’t realize the struggles some people and families went through to survive each day. Each character suffers to a certain extent throughout the duration of the book. The author, Tracy Chevalier, captures the differences and difficulties the separate social classes run into. Chevalier also captures the adaptation that the maids have to…

The Girl with the Pearl Earring is connected to the Renaissance in several ways. In the movie, Ruijvan, a patron commissioned Vermeer to create a painting of Griet. This is a representation of the relationship between a patron and an artist during the Renaissance. A patron would specify what he or she wanted, what the subject should be, other figures that should be included, etc. In return, the patron would support the artist financially. Vermeer 's sole source of support came through his…

Plato was a educated philosopher of his time. Many people had follow some of his ideas and views. Artislo who was one of his follows teaching, but he also had a issues and disagreement about his teacher theories. Artwork is all around us. We see it everyday. During Platos time their artwork was more orginnal and inspiring. Most painting after platos time were more copies of objects such as "the girl with the pearl earring" that was a copy of a real form. In my paper, I will argue that Platos…

The novel Burial Rites by Hannah Kent is a fictional book set in Northern Iceland, describing the last few months that Agnes Magnusdottir has to live after being condemned to death for her partake in the murder of two men. While the novel is fiction it's based on true events, though the story is an interpretation entwined with historical facts of the murders that happened on the 13th and 14th 1828. The film Girl with The Pearl Earring, directed by Peter Webber is a Fictional film about a young…

The movie, “Girl with a Pearl Earring,” was so intriguing specially because I am familiar with the fictional story by Tracy Chevalier. I read about it previous to watching the movie. The girl in the story, Griet, is 16 years old and becomes the maid of a painter called Johannes Vermeer, who is attracted by her. The painter includes her in his drawings that later on are a conflict within the household. She also attracts the attention of Vermeer’s patron. Little is known about the life of the…

This brilliantly written novel by Tracy Chevalier is based on the 16th century painting, Girl With a Pearl Earring painted by the talented artist, Johannes Vermeer who at the time lived in The Hague, Netherlands. In the novel, Greit; a young teenager raised in a lower class family is being involuntarily told to be the full time maid for a high class family; the Vermeer’s. In the 16th Century, social differences, stereotyping, and class rankings were “social rules” that were practiced during this…