A beautiful and creative variation on Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring. This beautiful African girl would not have been immortalised like this anytime soon in the seventeenth century, but luckily we can now make up for that time! Using both photo technique, and (digital) painting technique, I created this beautiful portrait. Because paint and photo merge, you can keep looking at this work. Beautiful in any interior. Until 1995, Vermeer's original painting was known as Girl with turban. Only at the Mauritshuis did they decide that Girl with a Pearl Earring was a better name. Vincent Icke concluded in 2014 that the earring cannot be a pearl: its mirror reflection, pear shape and size are foreign to a common pearl. After being confronted with the fact that the pearl in the painting is not a pearl, the museum said it did not want to change the name again anyway.
Created by Roger VDB with support from AI.
Hobby photographer and all-round creative. My portfolio consists of own photography and CC0-photoshop adaptations. I also "restore" old photos and illustrations digitally and make collages you can keep looking at!.. Read more…