Analysis of Girl with a Pearl Earring by Vermeer

Its midnight, a quiet, silent night, everything is perfectly still, except for a wooly wondering, childly, peasant girl, standing alone in the pitch glum darkness of the night. Above her is only a half calendered moon creeping through the night darkness No one is around it is as if it were the end of the world. Its as though this preteen girl is the last living someone on earth. This is a painting by Johannes Vermeer called Girl with a Pearl Earring.         With her worrisome look and her jet black eyes, this young peasant girl seems as though she wants to yell or scream for help. However, she is overwhelmed by fear and anxiety and is therefore unavailing to do so. Black piercing eyes and faint, fading eyebrows looks as though she is seeing right through you. Just handle when a teacher looks when a student tells her the dog have my homework. The peasant young girls head is tilt at a 45-degree angle, and her silver, tear dropped shaped pearl earring is abatement in the wind. The earring looks like it could even be a toy dog Christmas ball like ornament. She is looking over her shoulder, as though, she is super petrified by someone or something. She looks so unhappy it is as if she does not know where to go or which way to turn.

        This young peasant girl, dressed in her heavy wool, sandy, beach browned kimono, and her long dangling bluish-purple turban wrapped around her head, is aimlessly searching for her tribal family. This sacred kimono has been passed down from generation to generation. This is unmistakable because the wear and tear of the ceremonial kimono and the way its much to voluminous for her. It represents her familys tribal beliefs and signifies her strong family...

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