Hello canadenis,
Thank you for your question.
Surpringly, there appears to be a good deal of information on artists
and artistic works inspired by Vermeer.
Contemporary Novels, Poems and Cinema Inspired by Vermeer's Painting
http://essentialvermeer.20m.com/literature.htm
Quite a few novels and poems reviewed as well as interesting links on
Vermeer. An excellent site to peruse.
Elaine Magnin Needlepoint
http://www.elainemagnin.com/inbyvergirat.html
Inspired by Vermeer: Girl at a Table
SUNDANCE
16X20 NEEDLEPOINT DESIGN ON 18M
Watercolor Gallery
http://dali.karelia.ru/html/galleries/watercolor01.htm
Metamorphosis of a Man's Bust into a Scene Inspired by Vermeer, 1939
and Study for Apparition of a Vermeer Figure on Abraham Lincoln's
Face, circa 1939
Booklist Magazine
http://www.ala.org/booklist/v96/adult/de1/31cheval.html
"Chevalier, Tracy. Girl with a Pearl Earring. Jan. 2000. 240p. Dutton,
$23.95 (0-525-94527-X).
Inspired by Vermeer's painting of the same name, Chevalier creates an
elegant and intriguing story of how a young peasant girl came to have
her portrait painted. It is seventeenth-century Holland, and
16-year-old Griet is obliged to take a job as a maid for the artist
Vermeer after her father loses his eyesight in an accident. She does
the laundry, cares for the six children, and cleans house, but her
easy manner and natural artistic perceptions ingratiate her to
Vermeer, and she finds herself drawn into his world--mixing colors,
cleaning his studio, and standing in for his models..."
Paintings in Greenaway's Films
http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~engl891/cook_thief_wife_lover.htm
"All paintings in Greenaway's films are early modern. Vermeer is
central, particularly to A Zed and Two Noughts, and is the basis of
cinema, according to Greenaway...
The costume of an older woman in the kitchen appears to have been
inspired by Vermeer's "Milkmaid," below.
And the waitress's costume appears to have been inspired by Vermeer's
"Girl with a Red Hat."
Freep Entertainment
http://www.freep.com/entertainment/tvandradio/brush30_20030130.htm
"Masterpiece touches lives through history January 30, 2003
BY JANE HENDERSON
ST. LOUIS DISPATCH
Susan Vreeland has a passion for the old and musty: British
literature, Baroque artwork, Dutch history. Her husband calls her a
"pop culture failure." 'Brush With Fate'
9 p.m. Sunday WWJ-TV, Channel 62, CBS
But what a failure.
With a novel transformed into this Sunday's Hallmark Hall of Fame
movie and a seven-figure publishing contract, Vreeland has found
success by reimagining history.
How else to explain last week's Los Angeles premiere at which fake
guards stood sentry near a made-for-TV painting, a fake masterpiece
that is the star of Hallmark's "Brush With Fate" on CBS?
In the movie and Vreeland's novel, "Girl in Hyacinth Blue," the story
follows a painting by Dutch master Jan Vermeer (1632-75) as it is
stolen, given away, bought and sold over several hundred years. There
was no real painting called "Girl in Hyacinth Blue" in Vermeer's
oeuvre: It's one that Vreeland imagines and then endows with a
fascinating history..."
A Gift of Light
Poems inspired by Vermeer's paintings of women.
http://www.christianitytoday.com/books/web/2000/dec13.html
"In Quiet Light: Poems on Vermeer's Women, by Marilyn Chandler
McEntyre, Eerdmans, 71 pp.; $20
Donald Hall has pointed out that if those who lament the lack of
support for poetry would themselves buy one book of contemporary
poetry a year then poetry would do just fine. If you're still looking
for your volume of poetry for this year, I have it for you. It is
Marilyn Chandler McEntyre's In Quiet Light: Poems on Vermeer's Women
(Eerdmans).
The volume consists of 20 poems, each one a reflection on a Vermeer
painting of a woman. The book is handsomely produced, each poem facing
a reproduction of the painting it describes. McEntyre says that
Vermeer's paintings create "an environment rich with unspoken
feeling." She gives words to those feelings, and the words are deft,
compassionate, and full of insight..."
A very interesting article about a "possible" newly discovered work of
Vermeer's says:
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=6556
Oh yes it is! Oh no it’s not!
After its showing in New York, Baron Rolin’s “Young woman at a
virginal” has been accepted as plausible enough to be included in the
London stage of the exhibition, but some scholars have yet to be
convinced...
...Frits Duparc, director, the Mauritshuis, The Hague Based on an
examination of a photograph, he feels “the quality of the Rolin
picture is weak, and I cannot believe it is a Vermeer”. He accepts,
however, that it may well be late 17th century, and “inspired by
Vermeer’s work..."
PackWorld.com
http://www.packworld.com/articles/Departments/13259.html
"Graphics inspired by Dutch master
Once San Francisco-based Skyy Vodka founder Maurice Kanbar perfected
his decadent Dutch chocolate cream liqueur, it was only a matter of
time before he created an appropriate package. Inspired by Dutch
painter Johannes Vermeer, the package for Vermeer Dutch Chocolate
Cream blends a rich mixture of luminous color and artistic attention
to detail. The custom amber glass bottle employs a simple yet elegant
design. Not only is it decorated with a shimmering label, but it also
bears the embossed signature of J. Vermeer..."
cardonahinegallery.com
http://www.cardonahinegallery.com/pages/aboutus.html
"...BARBARA McCAULEY
McCauley began painting and drawing in her teens and studied drawing
for 2 years at UCLA, but pursued writing for the next 30 years,
principally poetry, and has numerous publications in poetry, fiction,
non-fiction and one Emmy Award-winning educational television series.
In 1991, she returned to drawing from the figure and then to painting,
a lifetime passion previously reserved to others, and now pursues
painting almost exclusively.
Her work is influenced primarily by the architecture and landscape of
northern New Mexico and of her native New England. With a style
balanced on a taut sense of realistic expressionism, her vision rests
on the hidden, a human presence that is felt rather than seen.
Inspired by Vermeer, Diebenkorn, and Hopper, among others, her work
has a concentrated essence and feeling for place as opposed to an
exactness of representation. In the brief time since she has returned
to painting, her work is in collections all over the United States as
well as abroad..."
http://www.salisbury.edu/UnivOffices/PR/PressReleases/1999/011499EI.html
Exhibit "Image as Metaphor" Paintings by Bertil Whyman on Display
January 19-March 19 in SSU's Atrium Gallery
"SALISBURY, MD--"Image as Metaphor," an exhibit of paintings by
Whitehaven artist Bertil Whyman, is on display in the Salisbury State
University Atrium Gallery January 19-March 19. A reception will be
held Friday, January 22, from 4-7 p.m. Admission is free and the
public is cordially invited.
In his art Whyman attempts "to rediscover who we are by portraying
images of where we have been." The old houses, boats, books and family
photos that fill his paintings represent the care and quality that
went into hand crafted items of years ago...
...Inspired by Vermeer, Manet, Homer and Sargent, Whyman is a
dedicated artist whose paintings have been exhibited at the Ward
Museum of Wildfowl Art, the Finer Side and other galleries throughout
Maryland, Maine and Vermont. His work is in prominent collections
around the country..."
Caller.com
http://www.caller.com/ccct/movies/article/0,1641,CCCT_881_1838239,00.html
"New on DVD: 1946 version of 'Beauty and the Beast'
By JOHN BEIFUSS March 25, 2003
In the decades before the Disney cartoon musical, Jean Cocteau's
poetic "Beauty and the Beast" (1946) was the definitive dramatization
of Madame Leprince de Beaumont's 1757 fairy tale about the
transformative power of love...
...Now, of course, Cocteau's "Beauty and the Beast" is regarded as a
masterpiece, not just for its silvery black-and-white photography and
dreamlike design (inspired by Vermeer and Gustav Dore) but for its
demonstration of Cocteau's conviction that the world of fantasy and
imagination - the world of art, the world of the Beast - is as real as
the mundane world inhabited by Beauty and her family..."
Film Forum
http://www.filmforum.com/daysofheaven.html
Terrence Malick's
DAYS OF HEAVEN
"...Shot almost entirely during the "magic hour" before sundown, with
natural light, the arresting images just keep coming: Manz's wise-eyed
gaze, a train passing over a lacework bridge, the frosty fields of the
prairie, the pearly sweat of the harvesters, a crystal glass at the
bottom of a river. Inspired by Vermeer (and reminiscent of Wyeth and
Hopper), cinematographer Nestor Almendros cleared the photography
awards at both Cannes and the Oscars, with late-inning relief from
Haskell Wexler when Truffaut's The Man Who Loved Women called..."
Hamid Alaghehband My Paintings Gallery
http://www.iranianartgallery.com/photo.htm
Title : Inspired from J. Vermeer 1640
Amazing Art
http://members.lycos.nl/amazingart/E/22.html
Metamorphosis of a Man's Bust into a Scene Inspired by Vermeer -
Salvador Dalí
The Powell & Pressburger Pages
http://www.powell-pressburger.org/Reviews/Jack/JackC25.html
Jack Cardiff: Cinema's Vermeer
By Bill Desowitz
New York Times, Sunday March 25th (Oscar Night)
"It's fitting that when the Academy Awards are bestowed tonight, Jack
Cardiff will receive the first honorary Oscar ever given to a
cinematographer for artistic achievement rather than technical merit.
This 86-year-old Briton has always relied more on art than technology,
and he likes to tell how the rapt hours he had spent in museums as a
child served to propel his career later when he least expected it...
...Awaiting his turn, he watched his colleagues emerge from their
interviews bemoaning the difficulty of the technical questions. Well,
Mr. Cardiff began his session by confessing his own ignorance of film
technology - and there was stunned silence. He then proceeded to
engage the interviewers in an analysis of lighting in painting,
describing in passionate detail how his favorite old masters -
Rembrandt, Vermeer and Pieter de Hooch - played with light to capture
the subtleties of human emotion..."
Joost van Santen Light Art
http://home.planet.nl/~jvansant/curr1.html
"...The existence of the Percent for Art Program in The Netherlands
gave me the opportunity to realize projects with Light in architecture
and in sculpture. A number of my works are to be found in Amsterdam.
The beautiful Dutch light influences the way many Dutch artists work.
Painters as Rembrandt, Vermeer, Jongkind, Dibbets etc. are famous for
their use of light..."
Clive Titmuss - Luthier
http://www.clivetitmuss.com/luthier/luthier_gal1.htm
"Guitar after Christoforo Cocho"
650 mm string length. Brazilian rosewood, shaded yew back, rosewood
veneered neck and head, pear and parchment rose, cypress soundboard,
piano key ivory and ebony binding, boxwood pegs.. A slimand attractive
shape for a guitar with decor inspired by Vermeer's "The Guitar
Player". $3200 US.
JT Winik
http://www.jtwinik.com/statement3.html
"...Twice, I have been consciously inspired to work with the images of
other artists, these being Vermeer and Balthus. By doing so, I do not
mean merely duplicating the work of another; the intent is not to
replicate the style of another artist, not to attempt to master the
technical virtuosity of another, as was a common practice during the
seventeenth to early nineteenth centuries among students of European
art academies. Rather, as with any object of inspiration, the impetus
to explore the work of another is a process of reaction and
assimilation, the result of which a fresh interpretation is born..."
Annabel Chaffer design
http://www.annabelchaffer.co.uk/products/designer_jewellery/rembrandt_vermeer_official_jewellery_collection_page01.htm
The Rembrandt and Vermeer Official Jewellery Collection
Inspired by the masterpieces of Rembrandt and Vermeer, a leading
English jewellery designer has adapted the mid 17th century portrait
jewellery of Rembrandt and Vermeer for the Rijks Museum Amsterdam.
Henry Art Gallery
http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/2aa/2aa666.htm
"...Any discussion of the Boston School must begin with Edmund Charles
Tarbell, for at the time he was acknowledged as the leader.[4] In
fact, the others were grouped around him and frequently referred to as
"Tarbellites," which is not an unfair appellation, though it naturally
applied more completely to some artists than to others. Born in West
Groton, Massachusetts, Tarbell began his artistic career working for
the Forbes lithography firm in Boston and then began to attend the
Boston Museum school under the influential teacher Otto Grundmann, who
was trained in Belgium. Like almost all of the other painters
discussed in this essay, he went to Paris and studied at the Académie
Julian, along with his good friend, contemporary, and fellow Boston
Museum student, Frank Benson. He also traveled in Germany and spent a
winter in Venice, returning to Boston in 1885...
...In these pictures Tarbell has reverted to a more tonal treatment,
less coloristic emphasis, and a greater concern with a filtered
atmosphere, in works that might suggest the influence of Whistler in
their compositions as well. But the true source for this change, at
once radical and yet conservative, is the rediscovery of and interest
in the work of Jan Vermeer. This was recognized by Tarbell's champions
and much approved. Tarbell was felt to have been inspired by Vermeer,
but not to be imitating him or his art. Tarbell's environment was a
modern one; he did not paint costume pieces. His color, too, was
contemporary, laid on with a full brush rather than utilizing old
master glazes, but he was, in the manner of Vermeer, attempting to
catch the nuances of light and atmosphere in a total visual effect of
the illumination of his interior spaces. Isolated American precedents
for Tarbell's aesthetic can be found in such works as J. Alden Weir's
Idle Hours of 1888, but the inspiration of Vermeer was direct and
overwhelming..."
Search Strategy:
Inspired by Vermeer
Inspired by Vermeer +painter OR painting OR artist
"Inspired by Vermeer" +painter OR painting OR artist -book
I trust my research has provided you with a variety of interesting
links on artists, poets, cinematographers and authors inspired by
Vermeer. If a link above should fail to work or anything require
further explanation or research, please do post a Request for
Clarification prior to rating the answer and closing the question and
I will be pleased to assist further.
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