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  • Vermeer: Master of Light

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    Vermeer: Master of Light is a short series of videos from the National Gallery of Art in Washington that explores some aspects of Vermeer’s paintings, like composition, color and diffuse edges, that are characteristic of his work and make a Vermeer a Vermeer. The series can be accessed on ArtBabble. There are five episodes, plus…

  • Vermeer’s Milkmaid in New York

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    It’s not that often that I get excited about the the occasion of a single painting crossing the Atlantic Ocean, except for those occasions when it happens to be one of the finest paintings by one of history’s finest painters, and particularly if that painter is Johannes Vermeer. Celebrating the 400th anniversary of the historic…

  • A Vermeer in Rome

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    In a situation similar to the one I described in my recent article on A Vermeer Comes to California, Jonathan Janson, the director of the amazing Essential Vermeer web resource, let us know in a comment on that post that there is currently a Vermeer on view in Rome. Normally the southernmost location to see…

  • A Vermeer Comes to California

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    There are painters, there are painter’s painters and then there’s Vermeer. Ever since I became entranced on seeing his work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York when I was younger, I’ve thought of Vermeer as less like other painters and more like an alchemist of light, an artistic sorcerer whose works transcend…

  • Essential Vermeer

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    In my development as an artist, it’s taken me a long time to get over being intimidated by the great masters. Over the years, I’ve caught Raphael and Michelangelo making mistakes in proportion, Prud’hon cheating to fit a figure on a sheet of paper, even Rembrandt missing the mark. I eventually realized that the masters…

  • A Fresh Look: Botticelli’s Venus (reversed)

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    When painting or sketching, artists will often use a mirror to briefly reverse their view of a work that is difficult to see objectively because it has become too familiar from time spent working on it. I enjoy applying that same idea to works of art that have become so iconic and familiar they are…