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Of all Vermeer's paintings, it was probably this picture that he held in greatest esteem. It was the painting he used to show off his skills to customers. A customer three centuries after he died was none other than Adolf Hitler
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de-Iousing
Delft
Pieter de Hooch
Vermeer
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Painters would depict the most mundane and even unsightly tasks - here, a mother de-Iousing her daughter's hair, by the Delft artist Pieter de Hooch.
They would specialise in sort of niche area perhaps even as nichey as still lives with breakfast pieces or landscapes that are always rainy or something like that.
There was a lot of competition and if you weren't quite as good as the other guy who specialised in your subject you might well fall on hard times.
Vermeer's speciality was the quiet domestic interior. He often showed a woman engaged in some absorbing or private activity pouring milk or reading a letter. But even within that small territory he had local rivals Pieter de Hooch, for one.画家连最平凡,甚至不雅的活动都不放过,好比说徳福特画家何鄂就画了这幅母亲帮女儿抓头虱的作品。画家都有自己最擅长的领域,有时甚至细分至早餐静物画,或雨中风景画等等。竞争非常激烈,要是技巧不如,同领域的竞争对手,就只能等着喝西北风。维梅尔最擅长的是祥和的居家场景,常常以全神贯注做某件事的妇女为画中主角,也许在倒牛奶,或是看信。但就算在这么狭窄的领域中,在地方上还是有竞争对手,荷郝就是其中之一。 |
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