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    • YEAR 2 & 4 >
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        • Chihuly
        • Moses
        • Durer and Line
        • Matisse and Shape
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        • Christy - Constitution Day
        • Monet and Color
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        • Art Review- 1st 9-weeks
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    • Mrs. Pam Hogue (Principal)
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    • School of Innovation SLIDES
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    • YEAR 1 & 3 >
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    • Additional Faces >
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      • Helpers - when disasters occur
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  • Places
    • YEAR 1 & 3 >
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        • Rio
        • Giant Sequoias
        • Great Wall of China
        • Mount Everest
        • Taj Mahal
        • Grand Canyon
        • Pyramids of Egypt
        • Stonehenge
        • Kyoto
        • Tokyo
      • 2nd 9 Weeks >
        • Venice
        • the Vatican
        • Crystal Bridges
        • Arlington National Cemetery
        • Cave of Crystals/Others
        • Westminster Abbey
        • Sydney Opera House
        • Christmas Places
      • 3rd 9 WEEKS >
        • Westminster Palace/Parliament
        • Easter Island
        • ISS
        • Paris
        • Amazon Rainforest
        • Serengeti
        • Festivals!
        • Walt Disney World
        • Pompeii
      • 4th Nine Weeks >
        • Tibet in Exile - INDIA
        • Istanbul
        • Sri Lanka
        • Jerusalem
        • Washington D.C.
        • Florence
        • WEINER!!!
    • YEARS 2 & 4 >
      • 1st Nine Weeks >
        • Petra
        • Cinque Terre
        • Yosemite
        • Neuschwanstein Castle, Germany
        • Galapagos Islands
        • Keukenhof
        • Thorncrown Chapel
        • Machu Picchu
      • 2nd Nine Weeks >
        • Chicago
        • Memphis
        • Scandinavia
        • The Dead Sea
        • Rome
        • Beijing
        • Christmas Week
      • 3rd Nine Weeks >
        • GREECE
        • Mecca
        • Ireland
        • Moscow, Russia
        • Chichen Itza
        • Palace of Versailles
        • Dubai
        • Cairo, Egypt
        • Freedom Tower / 911 Memorial
      • 4th Nine Weeks >
        • Barcelona, Spain
        • New York City
        • Angkor Wat, Cambodia
        • Terracotta Soldiers
        • Mount Rushmore
        • Parkin Archeological State Park
        • Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
    • Additional PLACES
  • Artists
    • YEAR 1 & 3 >
      • Artist of the Week - 1st 9-weeks >
        • Bierstadt
        • Adams and National Parks
        • Monet
        • Renoir
        • Wood
        • Rembrandt
        • O'Keeffe
        • Hokusai
        • Durer
        • da Vinci
      • Artist of the Week - 2nd 9-weeks >
        • Raphael
        • Munch
        • Rivera
        • Titian
        • Rockwell
        • El Greco
        • Constable
        • Christmas art
        • David
      • Artist of the Week 3rd 9-weeks >
        • Degas
        • Vermeer
        • Cassatt
        • Turner
        • Homer
        • Whistler
        • Seurat
        • Van Gogh
        • Disney
      • Artist of the Week 4th 9-weeks >
        • Sargent
        • Chagall
        • Kandinsky
        • Picasso
        • Dali
        • Remington
        • Mondrian
        • Pollock
    • YEAR 2 & 4 >
      • 1st Nine Weeks >
        • Chihuly
        • Moses
        • Durer and Line
        • Matisse and Shape
        • Van Eyck and Texture
        • Velazquez - Space
        • Christy - Constitution Day
        • Monet and Color
        • Rembrandt and Value
        • Art Review- 1st 9-weeks
      • 2nd Nine Weeks Art >
        • da Vinci and Drawing
        • Cassatt and Painting
        • Hokusai and printmaking
        • Picasso and Collage
        • Rivera and murals
        • Michelangelo and sculpture
        • Relief Sculpture
        • Rodin and modern sculpture
        • Schulz and cartooning
        • Van Allsburg and illustration
      • 3rd Nine Weeks Art >
        • Warhol and Pattern
        • Escher and positive negative space
        • Van Gogh and rhythm
        • O'Keeffe and scale/proportion
        • Caravaggio and Emphasis
        • Kandinsky and Variety
        • Cezanne and Balance
        • Art in ancient culture
      • 4th Nine Weeks Art >
        • Bruegel and genre
        • Illuminated manuscripts
        • Adams and photography
        • Wright and architecture
        • Seurat and art displaying
        • Toulouse-Lautrec and graphic art
        • Tiffany and decorative arts
        • Drake and crafts
        • New Media Art
    • Halloween Art
    • Veterans Day & Art
    • Thanksgiving art
    • Valentine's Day art
    • Presidents Day
  • Musicians
    • YEAR 1 & 3 >
      • 1st Nine Weeks >
        • Beethoven
        • Claude Debussy
        • John Phillip Sousa
        • W. A. Mozart
        • John Williams
        • William Grant Still
        • Carl Orff
        • Amy Beach
        • Scott Joplin
      • 2nd Nine Weeks >
        • Stephen Foster
        • Andrew Lloyd Webber
        • Johnny Cash
        • Aaron Copland
        • Thanksgiving Music
        • Tchaikovsky
        • Handel
        • Johnny Marks
        • Leroy Anderson
      • 3rd Nine Weeks >
        • Pentatonix
        • Elton John
        • Louis Armstrong
        • Glen Campbell
        • Woody Guthrie
        • The Gershwin Brothers
        • Dr. Seuss Music
        • The British Invasion
        • Glenn Miller
        • Henry Mancini
        • Alan Menken
      • 4th Nine Weeks >
        • George M. Cohan
        • Rimsky-Korsakov
        • Rodgers & Hammerstein
        • Albert Ketelbey
        • Andre Segovia
        • Robert Rodriguez
        • Antonio Vivaldi
        • Stevie Wonder
        • Carrie Underwood
        • Keith Urban
    • YEARS 2 & 4 >
      • 1st Nine Weeks >
        • Glen Campbell
        • Dolly Parton
        • Beach Boys
        • Richard Wagner
        • John Lennon
        • Camille Saint-Saens
        • Rossini
        • Mark Alan Springer
        • Review Week
        • Bobby McFerrin
        • Randall Standridge
      • 2nd Nine Weeks >
        • Chicago
        • Elvis Presley
        • J. S. Bach
        • Banjamin Britten
        • Leonard Bernstein
        • Ella Fitzgerald
        • One Voice Children's Choir
        • Christmas Around the World
        • Jingle Bells
      • 3rd Nine Weeks >
        • Bedrich Smetana
        • Garth Brooks
        • Edgar Varese
        • Joni Mitchell
        • Frederic Chopin
        • Valentine's Day
        • Koji Kondo
        • Philip Glass
        • Lin-Manuel Miranda
        • Review Week
      • 4th Nine Weeks >
        • Marian Anderson
        • Johann Strauss, Jr. >
          • Johann Strauss, Jr.
        • John Denver
        • Moses Hogan
        • Barry Manilow
        • Gloria Estefan
        • Wynton Marsalis
        • George Strait
        • Jake Shimabukuro
        • Yanni
  • CHARACTER WORDS
  • School of Innovation!
    • Laying a Foundation
    • It's OFFICIAL!
    • Rationale
    • Mission & Vision
    • ADE Approved Plan
    • Graphic Plan
    • Implementation Plan
  • Library
  • G./T.
  • Class Sites
    • Mrs. Paige, Kindergarten
    • Miss Kristen, 1st & 2nd Grade
    • Mrs. Sitzer, 1st & 2nd grade
    • Miss Bradley, 3rd & 4th grade
    • Mrs. Wilson, 4th & 3rd Grade
    • Ms. Thompson, 5th & 6th grade
    • Mrs. Neely, 5th & 6th Grades
    • Mr. Hernandez, Spanish
    • Mr. HIcks, Counselor
    • Mrs. Wendy, Learning Lab/Music
  • Student portfolio sites
  • National Blue Ribbon School Info

Vermeer - Links for the Classroom

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Self-portrait of Vermeer
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Vermeer's The Art of Painting
MONDAY - Johannes Vermeer and the painting of the week
Johannes Vermeer was a Baroque painter in the 1600’s from the Netherlands.  Most of Vermeer’s paintings were of ordinary indoor scenes from his hometown of Delft where he spent his entire life.  Our painting of the week is The Art of Painting.  This was Vermeer’s largest (47 X 39 in.) and most complex work, yet it has the characteristics of most of his typical paintings:  a 17th century Dutch interior lit by a soft light, exquisite details, and the characters in a frozen moment.  This painting must have been special to Vermeer, because he never sold it even though he got in serious debt in later years.  

YouTube video - Slide show of Vermeer's paintings with Debussy's Arabesque playing (3:25 min.)
TUESDAY - Vermeer paintings during World War II
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During World War II, The Art of Painting was acquired by Adolf Hitler, the leader of Nazi Germany.  It was rescued from a salt mine in Austria at the end of the war by the Americans.  The mine had probably preserved it from bombing raids.  The Americans presented it to the Austrian government.  An Austrian official escorted the painting to Vienna, Austria by locking himself and the painting in a train compartment.  

YouTube video - Khan Academy video examines Vermeer's The Art of Painting.  [Good examination of Vermeer's talent, the camera obscura and of some of his paintings' history during World War II] (4:55 min.)
WEDNESDAY - Vermeer's palette
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Mixing pigment with oil
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Vermeer's palette
Paint in Vermeer’s day, wasn’t available in metal tubes.  Artists had to buy colored pigment as a powder and mix it with oil.  Vermeer, as many painters of his time, used a very limited palette.   A palette is the set of colors that an artist paints with. An artist in the 1600’s had about 20 colors available, whereas artists today can choose from over a hundred.  Vermeer used typically about ten colors in his palette.  One difference in Vermeer’s palette from other painters of the 1600’s was his extensive use of natural ultramarine for his blue. 

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lapis lazuli
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Grinding lapis lazuli into pigment
Ultramarine paint was made from an expensive semi-precious stone, lapis lazuli.   Most artists didn’t use much ultramarine due to the cost, but Vermeer used the color not only for blue areas in his paintings but to shade white walls and drapery and for shadows. Using ultramarine alongside other colors gave Vermeer’s work a special glow. 
 
YouTube video - Making paint pigment from lapis lazuli (6:12 min.)
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Young Woman With a Water Pitcher by Vermeer
 In Young Woman With a Water Pitcher, ultramarine was used not only for the tablecloth but also for the daylight through the window panes and some of the shading on the wall.
 
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The Milkmaid by Vermeer
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Woman in Blue Reading a Letter by Vermeer
Other examples of ultramarine are in The Milkmaid and Woman in Blue Reading a Letter.



THURSDAY - Vermeer and the camera obscura
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A camera obscura
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There has always been a lot of debate about Vermeer’s painting techniques in the art world due to their almost photorealistic details.  Such perspective, depth, and detail were not present in other paintings of that long-ago period of the 1600’s.  Many art historians have decided that Vermeer made use of a tool called a camera obscura.  The camera obscura is a simple device which uses a lens and a viewing screen at opposite ends of a darkened chamber or box.  It is basically a photographic camera without the film.  Real cameras were not yet invented in the 1600’s.  

YouTube video - Vermeer and the Camera Obscura (1:42 min.)
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Room created for the documentary, Tim's Vermeer
Tim Jenison, an American modern-day inventor who has a computer graphics company, became curious about whether it was true that Vermeer used a camera obscura.  He set out to duplicate the techniques Vermeer might have used for the painting, The Music Lesson.  Tim experimented with lenses, recreated the room depicted in The Music Lesson, and even made his own paint by grinding as was done in the 1600’s of Vermeer’s day.  A documentary movie was made about Tim Jennison’s experiment called Tim’s Vermeer.  He concludes that Vermeer did make use of technology for his paintings.  Whether Vermeer did or not does not take away from his genius as a painter.
YouTube video - Trailer for the documentary movie, Tim's Vermeer (1:58 min.)
FRIDAY - Vermeer's legacy
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Girl With a Pearl Earring
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Woman Holding a Balance
Vermeer is one of the most highly regarded Dutch artists of all time, although that was not always the case. Vermeer was moderately successful in his hometown of Delft, but an invasion of the Netherlands by France hurt the economy and affected him.  Vermeer died suddenly at the age of 43 of what is thought to be a stroke and left his family in debt. Afterwards, for more than 200 years Vermeer was overlooked by nearly all of the art world. Only after 1866, when a French critic rediscovered him, did Vermeer's works become widely known. He is now recognized for his technical talents, his ability to bring interest to everyday moments, and his skill at rendering light.  Vermeer’s works hang in prominent museums all around the world.
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Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window
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The Geographer
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Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett is a fun mystery.  Watch the book trailer below.
YouTube video - Chasing Vermeer fiction book trailer (2:17)
Arkansas Visual Art Frameworks

VA.5.3.6  Distinguish between actual, tactile, and implied textures


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