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rayb


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Here's my latest piece of art to discuss for the Month of December.

The Milkmaid by Vermeer - in aprox. 1660

It's a beautiful piece, by a very talented and decent sounding fellow, Jan Vermeer, who lived so long ago and in such contented obscurity that nobody knows much about him, except that he was a family man who had something like 11 kids and died relatively young, by our standards today. 

He was never much renowned and it took a couple hundred years for the art world to notice him.  

I have no idea what type of project I'll do. I've thought about doing pinhole cameras, as it has been suggested that Vermeer must've used a similar contraption called a camera obscura to capture the lifelike details in his paintings and atmosphere... I've also thought about bringing in a Lightbox for tracing, but I'd need to MAKE one, seeing as how they're expensive... maybe I'll just use regular tracing paper... who knows... :) 
 

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That is a very nice painting. I really love the colors! I have something of a very similar style in my house. I'll have to look and see if I can tell who painted it.

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I like most of Vermeer's paintings. He had an amazing way of capturing his subjects. I very favorite piece of his is Christ in the House of Martha and Mary.

In the 50's Vermeer's work became popular as subjects for inexpensive prints (for the masses)...  At some point my parents purchased a copy of that print at a gallery in Boise... It was always there, in the hallway of their homes as I was growing up... since they bought it about the time I was born...  I own it now, it's one of the things I treasure... not because it has any intrinsic value, but because my dad liked it...   He always said Vermeer must have known his Savior to paint that picture so lovingly.

Because of my exposure to him I paid closer attention in Art History in College when we studied his work.  But you are right there really isn't much known about him...


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Hey Ray, my parents used to have that painting hanging in our house years and years ago. Don't know what ever happened to it. Saw that painting you posted and it immediately brought back memories. MEMMMMMORRRIES!! LIKE THE CORNERS OF MY MIND...MISTY WATER COLORED, MEMORIES, OF THE WAY WE WERE!!!!

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tomorrow's my art presentation and project with the fifthgraders... We're gonna do simple tracing paper and perhaps some oil pastels and such... dunno... Anyhow, I'll have to see when I get to the art closet. Found some tissue paper that'll work for Tracing paper. :)

Tracing is kinda boring gruntwork... so it should be um... well... we'll see...

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Thanks for an art history thread!

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