Robin Rile

the girl with a pearl earring

The Unspoken Word: Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring”

  She is small, demure and worth a fortune. Unblinking and thoughtful…. Serene, yet appearing as if she is prepared to speak. Her dewy skin glows palely beneath minute fissures which her age has gifted to her surface. Ever-young and ever-perfect is the vibrant innocence of the “Mona Lisa of the North”, better known as …

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Andy Warhol’s Starlets

One of the largest forces that drove Andy Warhol’s artistic career was his relentless exploration of fame and celebrity—both for himself in the creation of a persona that would rocket him to fame in the Pop Art movement, and in the various celebrity characters he seemed to collect and document in his artworks. Of particular …

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