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different type of paint. These techniques and methods used by the Dutch Mas-
ters, the layering and brushwork, have been something she
The thick layering and impasto technique were commonly draws inspiration from. “They did a lot of layering” and
used within the group of classical painters known as the “did a lot of things from life,” she said, preferring to draw
Dutch Masters. The Dutch Golden Age in the 17th century from life as much as possible, “and take along some pho-
came about when the number of religious paintings began tos to finish up the end piece.” Yates said she sometimes
to decline. Traditionally, religious themes were customary uses photographs as a reference, but may choose to use
and expected, until the painters began to focus on more only part of a photograph as the reference and change the
secular topics such as portraits, landscapes, and scenes of background behind the subject to something more visually
everyday life. One of the most well-known Dutch Masters, interesting than the actual background of the photograph.
Johannes Vermeer, created a painting that may be even
more well known than the artist himself: Girl with a Pearl Yates said of her chosen subject matter: “Figure work,
Earring. portraits, things like that I really, really love” and went on