Vermeer’s ‘Girl With a Pearl Earring,’ This Time With Robots, Earbuds and Goatees

Female With a Pearl Earring? Extra like Man With an Apple AirPod. 

The Mauritshuis museum in The Hague set out an open up get in touch with for innovative will take on Johannes Vermeer’s basic 17th century portray — with some strange and pleasant success. 

Scroll by posts tagged #mygirlwithapearl on Instagram and you may find more than 4,000 interpretations of the renowned oil painting of a young female in a turban, a substantial earring dangling from her still left ear. The homages selection from beautiful to whimsical to surreal, from classical to summary to steampunk. You may see the Girl in pics, digital drawings and oil paintings, and re-made in sculptures produced from embroidery thread, toys, school supplies and multicolored beads and buttons. 

She seems as a newborn, an older bearded man, a duck, a pet dog, a bunny and a blue Na’vi from Avatar.  In much more than a person image, she’s decidedly 21st century, putting on a deal with mask or earbuds or keeping a cellphone. A person artist overlayed Vermeer’s portray on a Tinder display screen, calling the development “Swipe Ideal.”

Were being some of the electronic variations created with an AI artwork creation device like Dall-E? You can guess on it. 

The Mauritshuis ordinarily properties the famed painting, but for 8 weeks starting up in February, the work will be out on bank loan for a Vermeer show at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum. Somewhat than go away the Girl’s wall vacant, the Mauritshuis ideas to exhibit some of the crowdsourced interpretations in a electronic display screen.   

“The space wherever the Female hangs will temporarily turn into a location of inspiration with as many Girls with each other as feasible, from house and overseas,” the museum says. 

As the submissions attest, the museum did not area any limits on creative imagination here. “A self-portrait with a tub towel as a turban, a painted iron or even a pile of crockery,” it says. “Very little is also mad for us.”

Vermeer, a person of the most renowned Dutch painters of the 17th century, is known for his intimate domestic scenes and gorgeous use of light.

His iconic Lady With a Pearl Earring has produced a amount literary and cinematic appearances, which includes in a 1999 historic novel of the exact same title that explained to a fictional tale of the painting’s creation. That book led to a 2003 film adaptation starring Scarlett Johansson as a young servant in the household of Vermeer, played by Colin Firth. 

If you want to check out the unique painting in much more element ahead of crafting your individual acquire, an augmented-truth attribute called Pocket Gallery in Google’s free Google Arts & Culture application offers a digital exhibition space where you can see and find out about all 36 of Vermeer’s paintings. None of which aspect bots.