woman with a water jug johannes vermeer

woman with a water jug johannes vermeerAs part of the Dutch Baroque movement, Johannes Vermeer's painting Woman with a Water Jug depicts an everyday scene with infinite grace. The viewer is plunged into the intimacy of a woman at her morning toilet, a genre scene that reveals the richness of the most banal moments. The painting shows a young woman standing by an open window, holding a ewer and a pearl. The blue of her dress, the white of her headdress and the gold of the ewer shine in the

typical of British Romanticism

As part of the Post-Impressionist movement

the painting depicts two seated women

The slightly sinuous natural shapes convey an impression of movement and lightness

The painting shows a young ballerina

The composition is based on a juxtaposition of geometric shapes and dynamic lines

with a hand resting on his cheek

both figurative and abstract

Piet Mondrian's black and white Composition 10 illustrates the artist's talent for abstraction

underlining the artist's mastery of the play of light and movement

The artificial light sources create striking contrasts between the lit areas and the shadows

This total communion of psychic and carnal beings unveils through painting