{"id":144,"date":"2018-10-01T23:02:15","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T06:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/coraliemayertraynor\/?p=144"},"modified":"2018-10-01T23:07:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T06:07:30","slug":"jan-or-johannes-vermeer-a-master-of-mundanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/coraliemayertraynor\/2018\/10\/01\/jan-or-johannes-vermeer-a-master-of-mundanity\/","title":{"rendered":"Jan (or Johannes) Vermeer – A Master of Mundanity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jan Vermeer van Delft (1632-75) <\/span>was a Dutch painter who specialized in painting interior scenes of everyday, domestic middle class life. He was somewhat locally successful during his lifetime, but he was not wealthy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Vermeer was a slow and careful worker who often used expensive pigments, especially lapis-lazuli. <\/span>He is now known for his beautiful and masterful treatment and use of light in his work. <\/span>He did not produce many paintings, less than 50 in total,<\/span> of which only 34 have survived<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The bulk of Vermeer\u2019s work was composed of domestic interior scenes. Most of his paintings are set in the same two rooms of his own house, with different arrangements of the same furniture and different people, mostly women, existing in them. His paintings, as described by Gombrich, are like \u201cstill lifes with human beings\u201d (433). One such painting is that of \u2018The Kitchen Maid\u2019 (c. 1658). It depicts a middle or servant class woman in a kitchen pouring milk into a bowl. While the subject matter is simple and may appear uninteresting, \u201cThe Kitchen Maid\u201d \u00a0is considered to be one of the greatest masterpieces of all time. The complete and painstaking rendering of colours, textures, and forms without the picture ever looking harsh or laboured, mellow and yet precise is what makes Vermeer\u2019s paintings unique and remarkable.<\/span><\/p>\n

In ‘The Art of Painting’, it is said Vermeer intentionally omitted the left leg of the artist’s easel for the sake of clear composition.<\/p>\n

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The Astronomer
1668
Oil on canvas
51 cm \u00d7 45 cm
Paris<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Lady Seated at a Virginal
1670\u201372
Oil on canvas
51.5 cm \u00d7 45.5 cm
London<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Art of Painting 1665\u20131668
Oil on canvas
130 cm \u00d7 110 cm
Vienna<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Girl with a Pearl Earring
c. 1665
Oil on canvas
44.5 cm \u00d7 39 cm
Netherlands<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Kitchen Maid, c. 1658
Oil on canvas 45.4 x 41 cm
Amsterdam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Works Cited:<\/strong><\/p>\n

EH Gombrich, The Story of Art<\/p>\n

Wikipedia, Johannes Vermeer:\u00a0https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Johannes_Vermeer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jan Vermeer van Delft (1632-75) was a Dutch painter who specialized in painting interior scenes of everyday, domestic middle class life. He was somewhat locally successful during his lifetime, but he was not wealthy. Vermeer was a slow and careful worker who often used expensive pigments, especially lapis-lazuli. He is now known for his beautiful… Continue reading Jan (or Johannes) Vermeer – A Master of Mundanity<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7854,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-131research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/coraliemayertraynor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/coraliemayertraynor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/coraliemayertraynor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/coraliemayertraynor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7854"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/coraliemayertraynor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/coraliemayertraynor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/coraliemayertraynor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/coraliemayertraynor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/coraliemayertraynor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/coraliemayertraynor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}