17th C Baroque Art Vermeer cc

In terms of its rendering and physical form, the style of this painting most resembles the works of Caravaggio. There’s a strong sense of light and shadow also referred to as chiaroscuro. It is a close up portrait and it is extremely realistic. It is most likely painted in something called ala prima, which basically means without it underdrawing and painted directly wet into wet. Where this work differs the most Caravaggio is in the painters use of colors that are referred to as nonlocal colors. In Caravaggio’s painting is a palette of colors that we would call earth toned, which are all there is hues of browns. If you compare the flesh color of Vermeer’s painting to Caravaggio’s you can see that Vermeer includes colors such as green and some purples in the flesh tones whereas Caravaggio paints everything as shades of browns or oranges.  Caravaggio’s palette is restrained and only uses the hues that are in the brown family, but Vermeer has all of the hues (colors) such as blue, green, yellow and purple.

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Nina Katchadourian and Flemish Self Portraits in a Bathroom

Nina Katchadourian made a series of Vermeer like self portraits in the bathroom of a plane. Here's what she did! It's brilliant!

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Seat Assignment: Lavatory Self-Portraits in the Flemish Style

Photographs, digital images, video and sound (2010 and ongoing)

While in the lavatory on a domestic flight in March 2010, I spontaneously put a tissue paper toilet cover seat cover over my head and took a picture in the mirror. The image evoked 15th-century Flemish portraiture. I decided to add more images made in this mode and planned to take advantage of a long-haul flight from San Francisco to Auckland, guessing that there were likely to be long periods of time when no one was using the lavatory on the 14-hour flight. I made several forays to the bathroom from my aisle seat, and by the time we landed I had a large group of new photographs entitled Lavatory Self-Portraits in the Flemish Style. I was wearing a thin black scarf that I sometimes hung up on the wall behind me to create the deep black ground that is typical of these portraits. There is no special illumination in use other than the lavatory's own lights and all the images are shot hand-held with the camera phone. At the Dunedin Public Art gallery, the photos were framed in faux-historical frames and hung on a deep red wall reminiscent of the painting galleries in museums like the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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