Sunday, June 21, 2009

I put light in my paintings that does not exist in my country #8

Artist: Jan Sanders van Hemessen. His Vanity was painted around 1535-1540 (displayed in Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lille). The butterfly supposedly softens the bony truth of vanity; an antiquary shop of Les Sablons, Brussels, exhibits the same caress:




(butterfly + austin mini = who cares ?)


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