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violet
Rembrandt
enhanced
stared
hurrying
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(At first I thought it was a trick of sunlight—which was quite diluted as it came through the room’s east windows—but all of a sudden I stopped to look at the painting as it sat on the shelf I’d built high up on the south wall just inside the door. For a moment I was almost transfixed—for the painting, I suddenly saw, was alive. The girl’s violet eyes stared down at me as though they would move behind their violet glasses at any moment. I stared. She stared back. And I felt life there. The flesh and hair and sweater looked alive even though they never moved. Yet I half expected them to. It was a meeting of eyes.
(Beside the girl’s portrait sat another small portrait of a man which I’d also finished this year, early. And when I looked at that one, I received the same wondrous feeling: It too was alive. In this portrait the man looks off to one side—yet those eyes too were on the point of moving. His opaque flesh had the quality of breathing....
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