3/4 The madness of Vermeer - Secret Lives of the Artists
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- • Secret Lives of the Ar...
First broadcast: 2003.
Johannes Vermeer is one of our favourite painters, with his Girl with a Pearl Earring now deemed the 'Mona Lisa of the North'. But little is known about his life and for almost two centuries he was lost to obscurity.
Andrew Graham-Dixon, travelling to Vermeer's hometown of Delft and a dramatic Dutch landscape of huge skies and windmills, embarks on a detective trail to uncover the life of a genius in hiding.
Renowned for painting calm and beautiful interiors, the real life of Vermeer was marred by crime and violence. His life was a bid to escape the privations of his family and yet even a glamorous marriage and artistic success failed to save him from the fate he dreaded more than any other.
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Whomever the geniuses are that "decided" that the painting was "too bright in color" and basically vandalized it by covering it in a pigmented varnish should have been lined up and bitch slapped for their arrogance and stupidity. Who the fuck are you to "decide" that any artist, especially Vermeer, should have their painting altered and displayed in any way other than the way it was intended? That's just gross.
The camera obscura was the high tech of the day.. Vermeer was no less an artist for using it. To say that it was, is to say that an artist is just a craftsman..
The letter and the girl in yellow silk and ermine pictures = ethereal and subtle.
600 Gilders = "overpriced"
People can't appreciate quality without time, education and insight.
I often wonder how much is Hype and how much is realistic. Saying that Vermeer was thinking of Future viewership whilst creating his work, is questionable. At best
Why do these people assume vermeer didn't enjoy being surrounded by family and children? It was his duty to procreate. He would have been fabulously proud. So to his wife and mother-in-law.
Vermeer painted like breathing on a cold window.....ethereal.....haunting.......
So love his enthusiasm,his eloquence & his knowledge!😍
VERMEER died poore, REMBRANDT also, VAN GOGH also(what is nation that hates their artists?!), but even cut his ear, CARRAVAGIO....., and what a barbarian words about MICHELANGELO and LEONARDO...., oh my GOD!What an evil massages to the world!
I don't get it. What are you trying to say?
Leonardo didn't die poor, he was cared for very well by his patron the King of France. Michelangelo also died wealthy, his net worth was comparable to that of Italian dukes and princes.
11:30
Tanneka Everpole = Milkmaid ??!!
If Vermeer's paintings were photos they would still be amazing.
If only i could have met Vermeer!! Or posed for him! Or even just live next door from him. Or down the street from him...
or in his bed lol. you love him
Also, vermeer was a ver slow painter, apparently
The BEEB should buy a dedicated Beeb bike for this bloke, so he wouldn’t have to borrow incongruous looking bicycles around the Netherlands.
its interesting that he sees suspense and anxiety in vermeer's work, i see the calm of eternity. the eternity of the everyday moment as it were. he imagines an ending, like this fragile breaking moment. there is no ending to a painting, particularly these paintings.
5:55 wow an old Mac desktop, I remember having those in 1998, when I was 8yrs old.
This is a Rare Gem.
This is kinda silly.... I don’t think those women are pregnant. Isn’t that a type of fashionable dress?
Jesse Hui no they are not fashionable dresses, the woman are pregnant 😊
And yet Vermeer and his wife had 11 children. He died at age 43. That means his wife was almost always pregnant.
Actually, 15 children were born to Vermeer, of whom 11 survived. So, yes, his wife was almost always pregnant. But no one is completely certain that he used his wife as a model.
they just feasted too much
These women's stillness give a look of a private abused life.
o come on.....! Some women can just look still and introvert. Without anything sinister behind it.
Being constantly pregnant and dealing with nothing but child care and housework would be torture.
lol. you would that, wouldn’t you
Great documentary; especially like the conjecture on the possible use of a camera obscura. Could explain Vermeer's use of light as such an apparatus would cause a diffusion of light that would differ from the play of light on the actual object being painted. Analysis of the brush stroke may support such a possibility as the subject would be upside down from Vermeer's perspective.
There's also evidence in his cityscapes that he painted transient scenes over a period of 6 months or more, which would somewhat limit how he could have used a camera obscura - he would have had to composite many ideas and visuals together or paint from memory or experience in those cases, more than painting based directly on the projection of a camera obscura. He may have learned from using a camera obscura in some of paintings, and applied that to painting from life or memory.