Woman Pouring Milk

Johannes Vermeer, ~ Artist

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Vermeer

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The painter is master of all the things that may come to man’s mind, and so if he wishes to see beauties of which he may become enamored he has the power to make them, and if he wishes to see monstrous things that terrify him, clownish and comical things, or truly pitiful things, he is the lord and creator of them. . . . Page 178

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Vermeer used a complex technique involving opaque layers, translucent glasses, and diffuse highlights laid over one another in order to depict optical phenomena, including his signature “spectacular,” or mirrorlike, highlights. . . . HoweverVermeer’s method of including highlights as part of his layering technique was unique. In ‘The Milk Maid,’ Vermeer laid down a rich orange-brown mixed with lead white and lead-tin yellow. He then added dabs of white and off-white paint, following a glaze of red lake. Over these layers he added further points of white to the bread and basket to front spectacular highlights. ~ Page 212

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