Masterpieces Tribute – Emila Yusof (Emilatopia)

My version of Girl With Pearl Earrings.

pearlysmall The head is big, that’s just me and my liking to draw big head. I changed her clothing to Dutch traditional costume and made the background lighter; somehow the yellow didn’t blend well with blue, but my rationale is art is never perfect. The imperfectness adds value.

Here’s the original.

The painting Girl with a Pearl Earring (Dutch: Het Meisje met de Parel) is one of Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer’s masterworks and, as the name implies, uses a pearl earring for a focal point. It has been in the collection of the Mauritshuis gallery in The Hague since 1902.

The painting is signed “IVMeer” but not dated. It is unclear whether this work was commissioned, and, if so, by whom. In any case, it is probably not meant as a conventional portrait.

The image is a tronie*, the Dutch 17th-century description of a ‘head’ that was not meant to be a portrait. After the most recent restoration of the painting in 1994, the subtle color scheme and the intimacy of the girl’s gaze toward the viewer have been greatly enhanced.[3] During the restoration, it was discovered that the dark background, today somewhat mottled, was initially intended by the painter to be a deep enamel-like green. This effect was produced by applying a thin transparent layer of paint, called a glaze, over the present-day black background. However, the two organic pigments of the green glaze, indigo and weld, have faded.

*Tronie is a term that refers to a type of picture made familiar by Rembrandt and his followers.Tronies were based upon living models, including the artists themselves. However, they were not intended as formal portraits.

Reference and source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_with_a_Pearl_Earring

Here’s the first of the series; my version of Mona Lisa. I use pencil as main medium and watercolor to add to the background.

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Masterpiece Through My Eyes: Mona Lisa by Emila Yusof. The background is based on landscapes that I saw randomly on the way to Florence from Grosetto, Tuscany, Italy few months back. I changed the composition of the head covering too.

Here’s the original version of Mona Lisa, painted by Leonardo Da Vinci, the famous Italian artist.

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The Mona Lisa has been acclaimed as “the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world.

The painting, thought to be a portrait of Lisa Gherardini, the wife of Francesco del Giocondo, is in oil on a white Lombardy poplar panel, and is believed to have been painted between 1503 and 1506, although Leonardo may have continued working on it as late as 1517. It was acquired by King Francis I of France and is now the property of the French Republic, on permanent display at The Louvre museum in Paris since 1797.

Mona Lisa or Lisa del Giocondo, was a member of the Gherardini family of Florence and Tuscany, and the wife of wealthy Florentine silk merchant Francesco del Giocondo. The painting is thought to have been commissioned for their new home, and to celebrate the birth of their second son, Andrea. The Italian name for the painting, La Gioconda, means “jocund” (“happy” or “jovial”), or literally “the jocund one”, a pun on the feminine form of the sitter’s married name Giocondo.

Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Lisa