#capstone class

This was a really interesting film for me. I'd been aware of Vermeer in a peripheral way, as someone who may have come up during an art history class or something, but I hadn't ever really delved into him or his work. So, this movie served both to inform me about Vermeer as well as bringing me along for the exploration of how he might have accomplished his painting.

I'm primarily a drawing person--I'm most familiar and comfortable with dry media such as graphite or charcoal--but I've done enough painting to understand that creating a painting like Vermeer's is very difficult and time-consuming. Watching Tim Jenison learn more about the methods and tools available to Vermeer and then deciding to try doing it himself was awesome in the most literal sense for me, the idea that someone would put that much time and effort into something and then watching it all come together in such a beautiful painting. There were several points during the movie where I wouldn't have believe that what was being shown was real except that I could see it, it was fantastic and astonishing and humbling.