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Here, I can't help thinking that the painting is better without Cupid getting in the way.... What makes Vermeer so modern (or timeless) is that it tells a stor
by dash2 5y ago
Here, I can't help thinking that the painting is better without Cupid getting in the way....
What makes Vermeer so modern (or timeless) is that it tells a story simply by the power of the painting: the girl's face, her pose, the reflection, the quality of the light. The symbolism of the Cupid seems unnecessary and clunky, as if he was innovating but still hadn't broken free of a traditional approach.
Or am I just suffering from the bias mentioned in the parent?
- plutonorm 5y agonah, it's clunky and unnecessary.
- compsciphd 5y agoI dont get what the point of restoring it in this way, unless you are 100% convinced that this was vermeer's final intent. i.e. yes, it might have been his initial intent, but he painted over it for a reason. who are we to destroy his final intent by revealing something else? If, this was a different story, that religious fanatics painted over cupid, not vermeer himself, then yes, there's value to "restoring" it to its originality. But that doesn't seem to the be the case here.