Vermeer

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani almost always refers to Vermeer through Girl with a Pearl Earring, and more precisely through the small highlight on the girl's lower lip. In 2015, he takes it as an example of a whole from which no part can be removed: taking away this glaze would make the painting lose all its charm1. Elsewhere, he links Vermeer to Dutch painting and its depiction of everyday objects2, in which he sees a sublimated everydayness3. In 2020, the same highlight serves him as an example of the prosaic becoming almost unreal4. He also compares the gleam of this lip to that of the gaze in Proust5. From one session to another, this detail thus returns to illustrate both the unity of the work and the transfiguration of the ordinary by painting.

1. 1L'île du Peuple : le débat23 Jun 2015 · 2:33
2. 2#3.3 D'Ulysse à Dédale1 Aug 2017 · 4:01
3. 3Café Marxiste - Travail et droit au travail20 May 2018 · 42:49
4. 4#6 Réponses aux questions30 Nov 2020 · 13:38
5. 5#5.2 bis FaceBookLive / Questions (1)6 Dec 2018 · 1:19:42

Summary produced automatically from 5 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.