This elegantly produced tour of the Rijksmuseum’s blockbuster exhibition allows you to enjoy leisurely closeups without having to fight through the crowds
Vermeer show currently taking place at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam
; all the physical tickets for its four-month run are sold out, and so this film represents the only realistic chance for most people to take a turn around the gallery. While being in the presence of the real thing would clearly be a transcendent experience, there’s something to be said for this elegantly produced walking-tour in a needs-must situation.
The resulting film plays to the series’ strengths – glowing, leisurely closeups of the art, accompanied by a continual stream of learned comment from curators and critics.
Perhaps the most interesting insights come from the curator who spent months X-raying and conserving Woman Reading a Letter, who talks with infectious enthusiasm on how Vermeer layered different shades of colour as he painted the edge of the blue robe. Nor do the commenters shy away from the theories that Vermeer used a camera obscura to fix his images, but steer well clear of repeating anything like, of Tim’s Vermeer notoriety – that in essence Vermeer’s work is easily reproducible.
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