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You're a special snowflake, aren't you? So am I, so no biggie.
Between us snowflakes, let us not turn ourselves or others into tear drops.
1️⃣ Be curious! 🤓 Why else would you even be here? We're here to learn and grow together.
2️⃣ Be outrageous! 🤪 We will keep this between ourselves, but show us what you keep in your closed fists.
3️⃣ Be kind! 💕 Respect others' opinions and perspectives, even if they differ from your own. We're all here to share and learn from each other.
4️⃣ Be compassionate! 🤗 Try it for a while, just as a change from the usual apathy. Who do you become when you care? Do you even know yourself?
5️⃣ Be playful! 🎉 Let that inner child out and see what she has to say about you. It is still in there.
Remember, we're all here to learn and grow together, so let's embrace our curiosity, outrageousness, and unconventional ideas with kindness and compassion. Let's explore the unknown, challenge the status quo, and have fun while doing it! 🚀
this painting has always reminded me of a stolen moment in time. It looks less like a pose and more like someone looking back at you before leaving...
An excellet painting but evidently aged quite badly. The background has many cracks and much of the colour is clearly faded. It would be interesting to see the painting restored to its original quality.
I have seen this painting many times that I almost don't look at it anymore.
One thing that strucks me is as Sam pointed out that like the Mona Lisa, it is hard to say what might she be feeling. IDoes she feel joy? sadness? nostalgia? confusion? surprise?
Is it a half smile or perhaps she is in the middle of a sentence?
It is everything and anything.
The painting captures an instanteneous pose which gives it al almost photographic quality. However, making a painting takes hours and days and to maintain this ambiguity and tension on her face is quite remarkable. Beside this, there is dynamism in both feelings as well as movement. she is in between two feelings as she is in between two poses.
This is the work of a true master.
Like the Mona Lisa the young woman in the potrait, her idenity is unknown. Does this add to the painting? If we knew who she was would we look at this with different eyes?
It's said to possibly be his dauther, or a mistress or what they call a, "tronie".
The head of an ideal type, a young beauty in this case. Whoever she is or is not, the young woman in the painting shows natural beauty. Natural beauty comes in many forms that does not require a provacative look but that the essence of the person shines through and captures those that are open to see it.
The painting for me captures this along with the elegance the pearl earring brings. It is subtle her beauty and not over bearing. I've spoke a lot about beauty here lol. Forgive me. "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" comes to mind.
There are moments in our life that others are able to precieve that we are not aware of, when our inner grace cracks the surface of our insecurities and cover-ups, (like make-up, jewlery, etc..) and shows the beauty underneath that we often don't see ourselves or witness.
Find you spark, what brings out your natural beauty.