Light reflections

Artsy photographic self-portrait of Sissy to accompany Pajamas Media bio (left) and detail of Jan Vermeer's "The Music Lesson" (c. 1662-1665, oil on canvas, Royal Collection, St. James' Palace, London).).

"The picture with your reflection seems very 'Vermeer-like," comments poet/pediatrician Jeff Hull, poet laureate of this blog:

The pose and expression seemed very much something he might have done. I suppose that sounds a little loopy, but it was the impression the photo made. I wonder if anyone can point perhaps to another artist's style (let's of course crop out or blur the electronic gear in the background)?

Detail of Georges de La Tour's "Penitent Magdalen" (1638-1643, oil on canvas, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

Not loopy at all, Dr. Hull. Vermeer's light is softer, like ours, but Georges de La Tour's is a close second, don't you think?  For both -- as for ourselves -- light itself is the true subject of the work.

Tiny at her Vanity (left) and Vermeer's "Lady Writing a Letter with Her Maid" (c. 1670-72, oil on panel, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin), republished from an earlier post.

"'Lady Writing a Letter with Her Maid" exemplifies Vermeer's essential theme of revealing the universal within the domain of the commonplace," wrote Mark Harden at WebMuseum, quoted here last year.

Comments

[goomp]

Anyone can snap a picture or dab paint on a canvas. A smaller number can compose a picture that most of us would wish to see repeatedly. Only an artist can use the "Light Fantastic" to produce true art.

[Blue Goldfish]

You've given me an idea! The universal ... within the domain of the commonplace. Now, to spot it.