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By DIANA BIRD • R»pp»h»nnock Newi C«ntrib*tin| Writer
On two occasions I visited the exhibition of paintings by Johannes Vermeer at the National Gallery of Art which closed Feb. 11,
If anything, the crowds on my second visit, on Feb. 7, were denser than on the First in mid-December. Although the situation could hardly have been more disadvantageous for picture gazing, through patience and persistence I was able to see the paintings at close range and to look at them for as long as I wanted.
.Vermeer has always been appreciated as an artist who gives an illusion of reality and who conveys beauty, in part, through his treatment of light. While his pictures are full of interesting and precisely represented details that convince one of a factual, authentic place and moment in time, there is no busyness, but rather a dignity of solemn stillness in many of his works. Some of this feeling flows from the attitudes of concentration his people exhibit. Whether they are reading, writing, making lace or pouring milk, nothing distracts them.
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