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I know I'm stretching this, but it's all I could think of!
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I know I'm stretching this, but it's all I could think of!
'Christina's World' by Andrew Wyeth (photo found on them interwebs)
In 'A Piece of the World' Kline tells Christina's story and how the painting came to be.
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“It‘s easy to recognize the surface of beauty. To see it with your two eyes. But the challenge to the artist is conveying the many layers underneath.”
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If you haven‘t read this one you are missing out!!
https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/untouched-1940s-paris-apartment-inspir...
#MarchMagic Day 16: This is definitely #BkBasedOnPainting - one of them chunksters that took awhile for me to finish, but well worth the read.
My favorite #BkBasedOnPainting and one of my favorites of all time! #MarchMagic @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
I know a lot of people loved this book but I just couldn‘t with this book. I made it about halfway before I bailed but it is a #BkBasedOnPainting 🖼️ 😬
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At left, Scarlet Johansson in the film. Tracy Chevalier wrote a fictional account of how the famous painting came to be. Set in Delft, Holland in the 17th Century, it tells the story of sixteen year old Griet, who goes to work as a maid in the service of painter, Johannes Vermeer, and his family.
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"This is a girl who has lived through broken dreams and promises. Stil lives. Will always
live on that hillside, at the center of a world that unfolds all the way to the edges of the #canvas . . . What she wants most-what she truly yearns for-is what any of us want: to be seen. And look. She is."
Pic from author's website. Beautiful writing. Captivating #histfic #art #artist
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