The painting “Earrings” was written by the famous academician – painter Adolf William Bouguerot in the manner peculiar to the academic school of painting. In his canvas there are echoes of many directions, the same Romanticism, for example. “Earrings” – the work of Bugero, – warm, bright, open and aimed at a positive assessment of the presentation, both the plot and the palette. There’s a lot of natures here. This applies to the layout of objects, the presentation of nature, the naturalism of the female image and the triumphant coquetry scene. As usual, Bouguereau painted life-size paintings.
The dimensions of the heroine fascinate and create the effect of the girl’s true presence in the surrounding reality. These hands, unusual clothes of ancient times, white skin, give out a Roman woman, very young, cool, like the morning of early summer. And judging by the cherries serving the “main characters” of the work, Adolf Bugero depicted it was summer. This is a period of warmth and ripe juicy cherries. To distinguish berries from the general picture, the author did not stint on bright colors. Their purple-brown spot favorably plays on the pale skin of the heroine. The rest of the background is somewhat monotonous. Green foliage accentuates white coquette clothes.
The girl is very young. How old is she, sixteen, eighteen? Its freshness and elasticity of the body, like berries themselves, are backed by the personification of youth – succulent cherry beads. “… And youth was like a Sunday prayer” – Akhmatova’s words are asking in the picture, bursting in, driving bad thoughts and dry grass at the girl’s feet. A little more, a couple of years will pass and Bouguereau will write a different story, but for now, his girl in the earrings can afford to play out the children’s fantasy in the form of fruit ornaments.
“Earrings” someone will seem to work meaningless, why contemplate the moments of life of a young beauty? However, warm colors, unsurpassed technique of genuine transfer of the surrounding reality and texture, serenity of the topic should not stir up the sense and pull the veins from the viewer. Bouguereau counted only on his own taste, without benefit and fiction – that he saw, then wrote, reflecting the real charm of the fleeting scenes of human life and nature in his youth and ripe cherries.
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