Vermeers Woman In Blue Brings Her Mystery, Allure To L. A. NPR. The Getty Museum is the last and only U. S. stop on the world tour of Woman in Blue Reading a Letter. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. On loan from the City of Amsterdam A. Hoop BequestCourtesy of the J. Paul Getty Trust. Click Here To Enlarge Imagetoggle caption. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. On loan from the City of Amsterdam A. Hoop BequestCourtesy of the J. Paul Getty Trust. Johannes Vermeers Girl With a Pearl Earring is easy to fall in love with shes young, dewy, beautiful Scarlett Johansson played her in the 2. But the 1. 7th century Dutch masters Woman in Blue Reading a Letter is different her face is shadowed and she stands in profile, totally absorbed in her letter. Pieter Roelofs recently accompanied Woman in Blue from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam to the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, where shes on display until March 3. West Coast. Roelofs, the Rijksmuseums curator for 1. Dutch painting, smilingly says he always dresses to match the painting hell be discussing Today he sports a deep blue shirt and sky blue tie. Vermeers Woman in Blue, meanwhile, wears a short, full cut blue jacket with a lustrous sheen that could be satin. The painter used different shades of blue to contour the jacket, which is pale and almost neon in front as she faces a window, and darkly shadowed in back. Vermeer made his beautiful blue celestial blue, as Vincent van Gogh called it with lapis lazuli stones. They imported it from Afghanistan, Roelofs says, already in the 1. Roelofs explains that the painter would grind a chunk of lapis lazuli into powder, and then he added oil as a binding material. He only mixed a small amount of paint every day just enough for the area of canvas he was working on. After all, there were no paint preserving tubes in 1. Vermeers Girl With a Pearl Earring is also showing on the West Coast, at the de Young Fine Arts Museum in San Francisco, until June 2. Courtesy of the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, The Hague. Click Here To Enlarge Imagetoggle caption. Programming Microsoft Dynamics Nav Pdf To Jpg. BTS On Getting Compared To The Backstreet Boys One Direction The Most Outrageous Victorias Secret Fashion Show Looks Of All Time Rachel McAdams 8 Best Roles Of. They will soon get bloody revenge. Stay on Budget with wicked cheap deals, savings, and bargains in the Boston area. Entertainment news and events in the midlands including restaurants, dining, movie times and theaters available via The State in Columbia SC. The Official Website of Beyonc. Support Houston Relief Efforts. HoustonNola. Courtesy of the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, The Hague. The Allure Of Woman In BlueWoman in Blue could be Girl With a Pearl Earrings slightly older aunt less innocent, more serious. Her mouth is slightly open her head bends forward a bit. Its really her and this piece of paper sent by someone, expressing a message that we do not know, Roelofs says. We are part of the story, but we shouldnt be there, probably, and this is lovely. I think that Vermeer hes a master in creating these kind of connections between a person being depicted and us. And I think even after 3. But Vermeer is only telling a bit of the story. Anne Woollett, Gettys curator of paintings, says there are still so many questions We dont know who the lady is we dont know who wrote the letter. We dont really know what shes reading, whether shes re reading a letter that came out of the box thats at the lower left, whether shes reading something thats just arrived, Woollett says. Perhaps she was sitting on the chair on the right and she stood up to read something important. Its all very alluring. Vermeers Instant, Enigmatic Message. The Gettys website is inviting visitors to imagine the letters first line. A professional writer will pick one submission, then create the rest of the message. Given how intent the woman looks, along with those parted lips, it just might be a love letter, penned in a distant place at sea, maybe and carefully composed. In those days in Holland, good communication was highly valued. There were manuals from France which gave some guidance about how to write to someone, Woollett says, how to write those important thoughts and feelings in an elegant way. If thered been e mail in the 1. Though Vermeer was awfully good at creating instant, if enigmatic, messages you get the scene quickly. Offers news, comment and features about the British arts scene with sections on books, films, music, theatre, art and architecture. Requires free registration. Blue Girl On Sunday Download Music' title='Blue Girl On Sunday Download Music' />But there was nothing instant about how Vermeer worked. In his brief 4. 3 years, he created maybe 5. According to Dutch curator Pieter Roelofs, Its still possible that you will find a Vermeer painting in your attic.