"When I saw this painting in a exhibition with paintings from the barock period, I was strickened by how it seperated itself from others: It is so fresh and fertile like it was painted yesterday.It is so irreistible. The green colour - so juicy!It is an evalation of the daily life. Who else than Vermeer can do this?The impressionist could't do it, they banalized. With Vermeer there is a divison of the human being in a harmony between photo and body. Just look at how he painted hands, a declaration of love to the old slide, the sweetness of the apparat.."
- Odd Nerdrum

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