Tim's Vermeer
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Goodreads does not, to my current knowledge, give a quick way to review DVDs and the like media, but I watched a really charming one last night -- Tim's Vermeer -- that actually led to ordering two more books I'd never heard of before from my library. So everything cross-connects. (I really shouldn't have ordered two at once, as my reading is very slow at the moment, but one can renew online these days, which may help.)
Anyway, for more on the film:
http://www.amazon.com/Tims-Vermeer-Bl...
I liked it especially because it seems to me more about how art really works, from what I've seen of working artists, than certain academic approaches.
The obvious limit of the technique explored in the film is that it is strictly mimetic -- it can only allow artists to paint what they see. To paint something no one has ever seen -- a flight of dragons, for example, or the imagined landscape of a world half a galaxy away, or the portrait of a fictional character -- requires an array of techniques. Which, judging from the glimpses of the eponymous Tim's cinema work that we see clips of in the film, he is very aware of.
Good film. Recommended.
Ta, L.
Goodreads does not, to my current knowledge, give a quick way to review DVDs and the like media, but I watched a really charming one last night -- Tim's Vermeer -- that actually led to ordering two more books I'd never heard of before from my library. So everything cross-connects. (I really shouldn't have ordered two at once, as my reading is very slow at the moment, but one can renew online these days, which may help.)
Anyway, for more on the film:
http://www.amazon.com/Tims-Vermeer-Bl...
I liked it especially because it seems to me more about how art really works, from what I've seen of working artists, than certain academic approaches.
The obvious limit of the technique explored in the film is that it is strictly mimetic -- it can only allow artists to paint what they see. To paint something no one has ever seen -- a flight of dragons, for example, or the imagined landscape of a world half a galaxy away, or the portrait of a fictional character -- requires an array of techniques. Which, judging from the glimpses of the eponymous Tim's cinema work that we see clips of in the film, he is very aware of.
Good film. Recommended.
Ta, L.
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I hope one of those book is *The Forger’s Spell; a True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century* by Edward Dolnick. Harper Collins, 2008. This was a combination of a biography of Vermeer, a biography of the famous Vermeer forger, Han van Meegeren, and the story of how the Nazis stole all that art during WW2 -- and how the three stories connected. Completely fascinating.Steve the librarian
This movie is also available on Starz on demand. That is where I saw it.
Tom