28 June 2013


Vermeer's women play music, and the music is sexual. (...) Another woman sits at a virginal; a prostitution scene hangs on the wall behind her.
 
In his painting The Music Lesson, a man stands by while a woman plays the virginal. The tension between them is understated, yet electric. Their stillness and apparent coldness intensifies the sexual drama. The room they stand in is a deep pool of light and shade, where an ultramarine chair and blue-tinged shadows fill the atmosphere with ambiguity.

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