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Views on Vermeer (2009)

Name: Views on Vermeer
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2020-08-04T12:52:21+02:00
Rating: 3.38
Cast: Erwin Olaf, Steve McCurry, Tracy Chevalier

Documentary | 52 minutes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 52 minuten

Alternative titles: Vensters op Vermeer – 10 Korte Verhalen / Views on Vermeer - 12 Short Stories

Country: Netherlands

Directed by: Hans Pool

Stars: Erwin Olaf, Steve McCurry, Tracy Chevalier

IMDb score: 7,0 (11)

Releasedate: 7 May 2010

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Views on Vermeer plot

Documentary devoted to the work of the seventeenth-century Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. Four contemporary photographers, three artists, three writers, two curators, an architect, an art dealer and an art historian tell about their admiration for his work in twelve chapters. Among them Tracy Chevalier, the author of the historical novel Girl with a Pearl Earring; American photojournalist Steve McCurry; the American artist Chuck Close and the Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf. In each chapter a special quality of Vermeer's work is discussed that makes the viewer look at that work with different eyes. From the way he painted bricks, through the scenes he chose, to the hidden political themes in his work. And that he probably had a camera obscura when making his paintings.