‘The Girl with the Pearl Earring’ is one of Vermeer’s most famous paintings.
How could a painter who lived from 1635-1675 create paintings with the detail of a photograph two hundred years before photography was invented in 1839? The artist was a Dutch master named Johannes Vermeer . Often he has been described as using light instead of paint on his canvas. The source of light is a mystery in his dramatic works most most often paintings of interior domestic Dutch life.
“This Is the Girl in the Red Hat’. Are you wondering about the source of the light colliding with the subject?
Tim Jensison, a successful Texas inventor, ponders this question of Vermeer’s methods as he tries to discover the mysteries and duplicate the painting techniques of Vermeer. Is it possible that a genius in the field of desktop video revolution of the 21st century can solve the mysteries of Vermeer’s photo realistic paintings, produced long before photography was invented?
‘The Music Lesson’ was the painting Jenison decided to try and duplicate.
This was a film that both my husband and I enjoyed.
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Wonderful! Thank you for sharing! Regards.
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That’s really interesting Anne because I did a portrait photo shoot a few weeks ago and purely by chance I took a photograph that drew comparisons to A girl with a Pearl Earring, even though the model was dressed nothing like her: http://anenchantedeye.com/2014/01/23/a-studio-portrait/ (it made me think that it’s like Vermeer’s painting was done in a photographer’s studio!)
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Both of them are brilliant! It needs very observant eyes from Tim and his creative mind to crack the puzzle.
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Reblogged this on Oyia Brown.
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Beautiful. One of my favorite paintings, and for some reason I never really realized it was the light that makes it stand out. And I even took a photography course, and didn’t see the light.
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