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Girl With a Pearl Earring? More like Guy With an Apple AirPod.
The Mauritshuis museum in The Hague put out an open call for creative takes on Johannes Vermeer’s classic 17th century painting — with some bizarre and delightful results.
‘Scroll through posts tagged #mygirlwithapearl on Instagram and you’ll find more than 4,500 interpretations of the famous oil painting of a young girl in a turban, a large earring dangling from her left ear. The homages range from beautiful to whimsical to surreal, from classical to abstract to steampunk. You’ll see the Girl in photos, digital drawings and oil paintings, and re-created in sculptures made from embroidery thread, toys, school supplies and multicolored beads and buttons.
She appears as a baby, an older bearded man, a duck, a dog, a bunny and a blue Na’vi from Avatar. In more than one image, she’s decidedly 21st century, wearing a face mask or earbuds or holding a cellphone.
