Imagination, Reality and Beauty

Edna 2022-03-23 09:01:58

Flip through "Triple Life", there is an article "In Search of Vermeer". It turns out that this Vermeer is the prototype of the painter who is to be interpreted in the movie "Girl with a Pearl Earring".
During the golden age of the Netherlands, painters sprang up like mushrooms after a rain. This may be explained by Marx's classic theory - the economic base determines the superstructure, or in the words of our Confucian sage - Cang Lin knows the etiquette.
When that era gradually fades away, and as a descendant to look for the past with nostalgic emotions, it can't help but feel a little more melancholy, and the art itself adds a romantic image.
As a painter, Vermeer never left his hometown of Delft. This relocation is similar to that of Kant as a philosopher. And he himself is reluctant to paint for outsiders, not only that, because he paints slowly, he doesn't make much money from painting in a year. Even though he has been an industry leader in this city and has a certain social status, he has to support his eleven children, so it is conceivable that he is financially poor. This seems to fit our vision of artists — talented but not worth a penny. What Vermeer lacks in his imagination is the lingering love. Perhaps in order to make up for the romantic imagination of future generations, the movie "Girl with a Pearl Earring" is coming. This fiction, combined with the little we know about Vermeer, determines our assumptions about history.
In the final analysis, the static objects of portraits and the dynamic audio-visual effects of movies stimulate people's senses, and the difference is the imagination caused by them. Portraits give people imagination, urging people to ask and think about the meaning behind them; movies give people direct sensory stimulation, and the sense of loss that follows can testify to this. The picture of the movie "Girl with a Pearl Earring" is simple and full of texture. The beauty it brings to people is visual, and the direction is inner. At the end of the movie, the dynamic images of characters are presented on the canvas to express the static beauty, which is also beauty, and in the transformation of the dynamic and the static, the meaning of beauty to people is the same, and the beauty is refreshing!
Compared with this pathetic life path, why is the beauty of art so attractive? Or, in vulgarity, how can beauty be produced? Thinking, perhaps beauty, symbolizes people's longing for a better life, and beauty keeps people's last hope in life.





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Girl with a Pearl Earring quotes

  • Van Ruijven: So, have you decided what to do up next, Jan? Have you found inspiration up in that room of yours? Is there another patron in Delft with pockets as deep as mine?

  • Vermeer: [Describing his newly arrived Camera Obscura] See this? This is called a lens. Beams of reflected light from that corner pass through it, into the box, so that we can see it here.

    Griet: Is it real?

    Vermeer: It's an image. A picture made of light.

    Griet: Does the box show you what to paint?

    Vermeer: It helps.