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It's as if he's saying,

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"No, no more. I don't want to play

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yet another song." [laughing]

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You imagine that he's been singing

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and playing the flute

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so beautifully that

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his audience is asking for more

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Well look at the pleasure on his face

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he looks so self-satisfied

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He's just turned away,

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his hand is up

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The other hand is still on the flute

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as if he's just stopped with his finger

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in one of its holes

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I can't possibly play another.

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[laughs] Or, he could just be pausing

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and singing

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Which is a standard type

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that we see in 17th century Dutch paintings

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The thing, of course, that carries this painting

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is the brushwork

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its sense of formality, its sense of the momentary

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the way in which the fluidity

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of the artist's hand moving through

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this canvas, and the motion

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of the figure himself

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are so beautifully brought together.

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I thought what you were going to say

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what carries this painting is the feather

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[chuckles] Okay. Because it's so wild,

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this giant white feather

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that completes this circular form

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that starts down by his mouth

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There's all that space above,

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so that his face is even

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slightly lower than center

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also the sense of the space to move in

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that the artist has only captured this one frame

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there are plenty of other things

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that are going around outside of what

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we could see