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Arshile Gorky about Johannes Vermeer in: 'A visit to the Metropolitan Museum with Gorky'

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"Delacroix spoke of the Greek coin being built from the center out. Vermeer has painted in this way, according to the principles of mass..

How beautifully they are drawn - Vermeer does not just make a leaf and place it in the design, he relates space and leaf. [on the painting of Vermeer ‘Allegory on the New Testament].

That drapery - it is abstract - observe how this shape [a space between a shepherd and the tree] curves around the center space while the tree counter-curves opposite it, cutting an egg shape.. ..the spaces on the carpet that carry no figuration are, in fact, shapes of vital importance in building the whole…"