D Torrez

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@MarcelHarding 15 күн бұрын

awesome

@craigsphillip 17 күн бұрын

Response to D Torrez’s Rebuttal to Tim’s Vermeer: The rebuttal you posit is interesting and certainly plausible, given the myriad number of expositions and postulations as to the work, style, techniques (what little we know of them), etc., of Vermeer currently extant in and accepted by the art world. So mysterious and largely unknown are Vermeer’s painting expertise and creative process, that these ideas have engendered numerous investigations and searches to uncover these fascinating secrets. I cannot here present any refutation to your premise except to say that the hypothesis at which Tim Jenison arrives, after several weeks and months of his experimentation as depicted in the documentary, “Tim’s Vermeer,” is openly and carefully displayed in that film. If nothing else can be gleaned from the documentary by any critic or admirer of Jenison’s, one can certainly see the progression of results of that experimentation that lands Jenison squarely upon one of the most demonstrative and convincing hypotheses on Vermeer’s techniques to date. Jenison, who is a respected and much-lauded master of videography and visual broadcasting and their attendant technologies, uses his skills and expert knowledge of the visual form to uncover the methods which very likely might have been used by Vermeer to create his masterpieces. Astonishingly, Jenison also does not indulge his experimentation with any knowledge of modern painting techniques and the luxury of using modern tools. For example, he manually grinds his own lenses for the camera obscura to the specifications known in Vermeer’s day; he manually grinds and mixes his own paint to Vermeer’s standards and known palette; and he reverse-engineers a room in Vermeer’s house in Delft, the place commonly accepted by art experts as the locale in which Vermeer painted, in order to simulate the space and lighting present in many of Vermeer’s paintings. It very well may be that Vermeer was not “dependent on a bulky optical devise.” If one is open-minded enough to consider Jenison’s final idea, that of Vermeer’s possible use of merely a lens and small mirror, one can readily agree with your premise. I very much agree with your thesis, and am in your camp, that Vermeer created his paintings “in his head.” The possibilities and expanse of ideas to uncover and explain Vermeer’s mastery are innumerable - yours is a concrete, knowledgeable, if not comforting, prospect. Thank you very much for your post, these eleven years later.

@firasdamdoum522 26 күн бұрын

Execuse me but these reasonings are unprofessional and unsatesfying. How dolid vermeer compose and choose the right size of the painting.

@toddaulner5393 Ай бұрын

It sure seems like he was around wealth as the outfits of his models and the decor in the backgrounds etc. He used optics and mirrors i guess but the subject matter has to be reflected. He probably just made some powerful people mad.

@saintmichael8167 Ай бұрын

The gentleness of woman today seems elusive

@foodforthought4546 Ай бұрын

What made this video so difficult and painful to watch was the abysmal mangling of the incomparable Debussy score of La Mer, synthesized so as to create the impression of an original and supportive backdrop to what might be an interesting documentary. However I will never know because I could not take more than five minutes of this awful music. Have no fear Claude, your music is infinitely greater than this tripe.

@zielfab.maslin1507 2 ай бұрын

Poetic. Thank you for your analysis of Vermeer's paintings.

@ChrisHeck-cy4zo 2 ай бұрын

I believe the director of this documentary was very clever in that he instructed both the narrator and the art experts to mirror in their style of speaking the softness of Vermeer's paintings. Brilliant.

@nixbronowski5822 3 ай бұрын

Lenses.

@user-wn8cp3qf1x 3 ай бұрын

I wonder why the light of Vermeer's paintings always come from the left.

@CarlWinter-oy8uf 4 ай бұрын

Jan Vermeer was beyond exceptional and brilliant --his realism in oils is astonishing!