Girl With a Pearl Earring. What a great film for discussing light. In addition to talking about the light in this flick, do research on the painter Vermeer and how the painters from the Golden Age of Dutch painting used light in their work.
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Funny little add, The director of the surrealism movie we all saw, his favorite painter was Vermeer. Fuuny little add in.
Hay teach, by the by, I added a post to the old bloggs I may have missed. Let me know what you think!
Vermeer focused his artworks on interior scenes that depicted everyday life. He is now acknowledged as a great painter during the Dutch Golden age, and for the way he handled light in his work. Painters during the Dutch golden age only depicted natural light; nothing special. I believe that the lighting in the movie really reflected the use of light used in Dutch paintings during that time period. The scenes in "Girl with a pearl earring" were all natural and much light was ambient, or at least appeared to be so. The only thing that may have been unnatural was the way the transparent colors swallowed some of the scenes.
After researching Vermeer it seems he uses light that movie directors would use to light a scene. Maybe some directors use some of his paintings for a reference.
I think his 2 best are "Young Woman with a Water Pitcher" (1664-1665) and "The Artist's Studio" (1665-1666).
I thought the film “Girl with the Pearl Earring” was good as fare as lighting and as a movie itself.
I found it very interesting how most of the shots that looked like so natural where artificial. I really liked the shot when she had the candle. To me it was a nice shot because it had her in a beautiful candle light.
Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675)
Vermeer ranks among the most admired of all Dutch artists. He specialized in domestic interior sense of ordinary life. Due to the fact that he only produced a few paintings, he seemed to have never been a particularly wealthy. When he died he left his wife and eleven children I debt.
Although I missed Friday's class, I rented Girl with a Pearl Earring for this weeks blog. Although I did not watch the entire film, I was very impressed with the lighting displays. Most notably in the darker scenes shot inside where there was no light in those times, only candles. The re-creation of candlelit rooms and heavily shadowed hallways was impressive.
As for Vermeer and the artwork of the golden age of dutch, it appears that painters showed little lighting in theyre art. The style of the time was portraying a scene that wasn't very well lit. Showing its images with faces heavily shadowed.
The girl with the pearl earring had amazing lighting, there were many scenes that i thought were cool, i liked how in some parts candle light was used and i liked that the lighting designers made the light look natural. My favorite scenes were the brightest ones =)
Vemeer was a moderately successful painter in his lifetime. He seemed to have never been particularly wealthy, perhaps due to the fact that he produced relatively few paintings. The paintings that he did produce were well recognized by many. He specialized in using light for a lot of his paitnings.
"Girl with the Pearl Earring" is a wonderful movie, both in lightening and in story telling. I found the lightening to be very natural/ Vermeer was a great painter when it came to interior scenes, they were very real in nature. The movie as a whole I thought was very good.
Vermeer was a painter who focused a lot of his work on domestic interior scenes of everyday life. He was not exactly a wealthy man. He had a wife and 11 kids and not that many paintings. During the Dutch Golden Age, he was highly respected and acknowledged for his art and how he applied lighting to his work. And that light being natural, realistic light.
As for the movie "The Girl With the Pearl Earring" I found that the light reflected the Dutch Golden Age fairly well. The light they used in the film was very much artificial but nonetheless realistic to the audience. A lot of the scenes were very beautiful and breathtaking. The natural candlelit rooms gave a very soft feel to it. The outside, overcast scenes were all made up in yet very lifelike.
That Vermeer likes to use windows alot, i noticed had different lighting then others is that because of his perception of light improved with age or maybe even vice versa?
...noticed some had...*
i liked the soft ambient feel of the movie the light blue and yellow lighting tones were interesting. it makes me wonder if they didn't use a gradual light blue filter on the lens of the camera.
in research of vermeer i found that he is most recognized for his use of light in his painting. personally i am not a fan of his work to me a Young Woman with a Water Pitcher or a poor girl with one earing are severely boring topics but i did enjoy the movie.
In the "Girl With a Pearl Earring" the lighting of the movie was spectacular. The lighting created a moderatedly early 1900's feel.
Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675)
Vermeer was a moderately successful provincial painter in his lifetime. He specialized in domestic interior sense of ordinary life. When he died he left his wife and eleven children I debt. In Delft, Vermeer had been a respected artist, but he was almost unknown outside his home town, and the fact that a local patron, van Ruijven, purchased much of his output reduced the possibility of his fame spreading.
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