Rebecca Blair on Jan Vernmeer.
Rebecca Blair. Art Historian came to us to talk to us about the Dutch Painter Johannes Vermeer.
He lived in Delft Holland 1632 – December 1675) was a Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. Vermeer was a moderately successful provincial genre painter in his lifetime. He seems never to have been particularly wealthy, leaving his wife and children in debt at his death, perhaps because he produced relatively few paintings.[3]
Vermeer worked slowly and with great care, using bright colours and sometimes expensive pigments, with a preference for lapis lazuli and Indian yellow. He is particularly renowned for his masterly treatment and use of light in his work.[4]
Vermeer painted mostly domestic interior scenes. "Almost all his paintings are apparently set in two smallish rooms in his house in Delft; they show the same furniture and decorations in various arrangements and they often portray the same people, mostly women."[5]
Rebecca is very passionate about Vermeer’s paint and in-between telling us her various love stories she showed us pictures of the paintings she saw as she travelled round the world to see them.
She started in Vancouver then went to Tokyo, London, Norfolk Virginia, and Paris to mention some.
She started in Vancouver then went to Tokyo, London, Norfolk Virginia, and Paris to mention some.
She spent some time detail out the light and colours of the painting The Astronomer.
She recommended watching the film Tim’s Vermeer on Netflix.
8 of his paintings have been stolen, several forged and many collected by the Nazis before being resorted to their owners.
One is still missing today.
Rebecca has offered to come back to talk further about her passion Jan Vermeer and to tell us about his paintings that have been forged.
The speaker was thanked by Ilan.
