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articles/Make your own Vermeer — theartnewspaper.com

Tim Jenison devoted 1,825 days to recreating a single work There’s a new Vermeer on show in Basel this week. But it’s not by Vermeer; it’s a film about an inventor called Tim Jenison, who came up with a gee-whizz gadget to do with television production that has left him with some money and an interest in historical optics. He’s also a friend of Penn Jillette of “Penn and Teller” fame. Tim’s clearly a very talented man who can turn his hand to most things technical and takes an interest in what goes on under the hood. So when he ends up having a close look at Vermeer’s The Music Lesson, 1662-65 (initially in reproduction), he can’t work out how the painter managed to achieve the effects he did, given the presumed limitations of his age. This is the territory mined by Philip Steadman in his book Vermeer’s Camera (Oxford University Press, 2001) and by David Hockney in Secret Knowledge (Thames & Hudson, 2006), and they both appear in this film, along with the brain and perception scientist Colin Blakemore. But Tim being Tim, he decides to take it all to pieces and see for himself what occurred.

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