Magzoid Magazine - Luxury Magazine in the Creative Space | July 2022

'Girl With a Pearl Earring',
Johannes Vermeer
The art world has long debated whether
the girl in the painting is actually wearing
an earring, or whether it is simply
reflected light, as close inspection shows
the “earring” is not attached to her ear.
Vermeer did not call his work ‘Girl with
a Pearl Earring’, rather that became
its official title in 1995, when the Royal
Mauritshuis Gallery chose it for the
Vermeer exhibition in Washington.
'Mona Lisa', Leonardo Da
Vinci
Because her smile is so legendary, the
background to Da Vinci’s masterpiece
is often overlooked, but has inspired as
many arguments and debates as her
enigmatic lips. Clearly asymmetrical, the
left side of the background is significantly
lower than the right, and the landscape
itself has been debated by art historians
for centuries, as to whether it was real or
from the artist’s imagination.
'The Starry Night', Vincent Van Gogh
Painted in 1889, the scene in The Starry Night is the view from the Saint-Paul de
Mausole asylum in which the Dutch painter had voluntarily admitted himself to
following his breakdown in December 1888, when he mutilated his left ear. The view
is from the east-facing window of his room in the French town of Saint-Remy-de-
Provence, although the village is from the artist’s imagination. The brightest star in the
centre is Venus (The Morning Star) which was visible at the time.
'The Weeping Woman', Pablo
Picasso
Back in 1986, one of Picasso’s Weeping
Woman (there are four version which the
artist painted in 1937), was stolen and
went missing for three weeks before it
was returned — but to this day, no one
knows who took it. The piece was stolen
from the National Gallery of Victoria in
Melbourne, The Weeping Woman was
recovered but the members of ACT have
never been identified or found.
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