Special Envoy to Amsterdam (Netherlands)
From the exterior to the most intimate interiors.
But always with this characteristic diffuse light, these daydreams, these elsewhere connoted here by a port, there by a letter, a window, a map, some exotic object or musical instrument.
This can be summed up the journey.
It begins with
View of Delft
, a landscape as realistic as it is celestial approached from the opposite bank of the quay of the Kolk.
The small haven for the herring boats of the North Sea - with the sky by disproportionate contrast - is the one that the painter will always have known.
Vermeer is there entirely, even buried somewhere at the foot of this old church, on the left in the composition.
Roughly in the center, the clock of the Schiedam tower reads 7:10 a.m. In this suspended time that each visitor finds again, we would have this
“experience of eternity”
theorized by Spinoza, the exact contemporary.
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First focus: here we are in front of
La Ruelle
.
Although not free from fantasy, this canvas is…
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