If you are an art lover and like a good documentary, might I recommend Tim's Verneer

[HymanKaplan_rivals48997]

Tim's Vermeer on Hulu

Gillette Penn documents Tim Jenison's efforts to duplicate the painting technique of Johannes Vermeer. Namely, that he used optics to obtain the photographic like realism in his art. That has been a controversial topic in the art world.

Over the course of 6 or so years, this guy essentially tried to prove that Vermeer could not have painted the way he did, w/o using specialized optical equipment, and it culminates in him producing a ridiculously accurate copy of The Music Lesson.

Tim Jenison wasn't an artist, never took a lesson, and in fact, had never even attempted an oil painting before he started this project.

 

[HymanKaplan_rivals48997]

Vermeer's methods aside, his work is almost the perfect fulcrum, when it comes to a question that's as esoteric as, "What constitutes art?" I know where I stand; while I have mad respect for the absurd attention to detail in paintings of that ilk, to ME, it isn't art. It's just, an illustration...

 

[Anon1640710541]

Meh.

 

[DSmith21]

Simon Schama' s "Power of Art" series for the BBC was very good too. Here is episode 1.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Schama's_Power_of_Art

 

[Spica Orbit]

I'll maybe glance at it later, but right now I'm watching That Darn Cat.

 

[Wynn Duffy 69]

 

[roguemocha]

That’s a private photo of me @WynnDuffy please take it down before my lawyers are involved. Thanks in advance for your cooperation.

 

[vhcat70]

I cam to enjoying fine art late. Love going to museums & have done many in Europe. Also there are many out-of-the-way little churches over there with fantastic stuff.

 

[HymanKaplan_rivals48997]

vhcat70 - It's gotten to the point that if the wife and I are going on vacation somewhere, and they have an art museum, she just makes other plans for herself that day. The last time we were in NYC, we went to MOMA (well, she lasted 30 minutes and went to the lobby) I was in there so long that she thought about sending a search party out.