Showing posts with label vermeer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vermeer. Show all posts

Sunday, March 19, 2023

Saturday, March 30, 2019

on Vermeer



Part 1



Part 2



Part 3



Part 4

Tuesday, August 30, 2016

space opera


"Art on all levels is technology."
- George Lucas

Thursday, April 26, 2012

geography


There are more Vermeers in New York City than in any other place in the world. 

Friday, December 3, 2010

on writing


A Lady Writing, 1665-66

"If you read what you wrote last year and aren't embarrassed by it then you're not making progress."
- An English teacher

Thursday, July 22, 2010

stuck rigorously to what optic nerve reported


The Music Lesson [1662-65], Royal Collection of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, by Jan Vermeer [1632-1675]

Friday, April 23, 2010

BiC

Saturday, November 8, 2008

truest recorder of optic nerve

Johannes Vermeer's The Concert [1660], which was stolen from Boston's Gardner Museum in 1990.

There has never been a painter who has stuck so vigorously to what his optic nerve reported as Vermeer of Delft [1632-1675]. All that he wanted was "tranquility in order to enjoy fine discrimination."