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Jiang's theory of Vermeer is that great artistic vision dissolves ego and body until the artist becomes the moment and the painting expresses the soul.
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Vermeer
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...moment. Okay, does that make sense? So, in other words, what Vermeer did is he became the painting itself. The painting became him, and..."
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"...moment. Okay, does that make sense? So, in other words, what Vermeer did is he became the painting itself. The painting became him, and..."
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"Girl with the Pearl Ery, right? This is a beautiful painting, but I will show you something else. I will show you some problems..."
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"But more importantly, it shows you the hypocrisy within middle class life. Because the entire purpose of prostitutes is so that the husband will..."
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"have just made the wall white, but instead he's showing us the cracks, the blemishes within the wall, which is a metaphor for the..."
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"...and civilization. The first major principle is great art. Dante, Homer, Vermeer, Shakespeare. It lifts the soul of civilization and changes the neurological structure..."
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"...artist of the Dutch golden age and his name is Johan Vermeer okay in every age in every movement you emerge a great artist..."
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"All right, another really famous painting by Vermeer, okay? Interesting is, we are here, right? sneaking in, right? We are looking in. We're spying..."
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The Dutch Golden Age begins with a poisoned Spanish windfall and ends with Vermeer exposing cracks in the respectable household.
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