Tim Jenison

Today we switched things up a little and watched a documentary that follows inventor Tim Jenison who seeks to understand the painting techniques used by Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer.

What made Johannes Vermeers work stand out is the level of detail that he puts into his work and the fact that the painting look like they were photographs.

The question we were asked to think about whilst watching this was "Why might the art world not accept this?"

From the start we know that Tim Jenison isn't a painter he’s just an inventor with a hobby, so from him to come into the art world and one say that he’s worked out how Johannes Vermeer managed to do his paintings is a bit of an insult and we see this in the documentary when he successfully copy's his father in-laws photograph using oil painting and the glass mirror techniques, he show his work to an artist and say "It only took me about 45 minutes to get the hand of oil painting it’s pretty simple." the artist just replies "well that’s very good for you its only taken me 45 years of my life."

How this links to Visual Effects

Fooling the eye

Short hand

Colour

Light

Narrative (Object put in place to tell a story)