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April 8, 2011 - PRLog -- Johannes Vermeer, or simply Vermeer (born, 1632) was a Dutch painter who could feature domesticity and everyday life with photographic precision.

Vermeer was a moderately successful provincial genre painter in his lifetime. He seems never to have been very rich and leaving his wife and children in debt at his death, this may due to he only painted relatively few paintings.

Vermeer worked slowly and with great care, using bright colours and sometimes expensive pigments, with a preference for cornflower blue and yellow. He is particularly renowned for his masterly treatment and use of light in his work.

Among Vermeer Paintings, I bet the most well-know painting would be "Girl with a Pearl Earring" which still popular among today’s oil painting reproductions

Only three out of 36 paintings attributed to Vermeer are dated. These are ‘The Procuress (1656),’ ‘The Astronomer (1668),’ and ‘The Geographer (1669).’ Vermeer began his painting career using the mythological and the religious themes, of which ‘Christ in the House of Martha and Mary (1654-55),’ and ‘Diana and Her Companions (1655-56)’ are famous and have a distinct Italian touch. The later paintings of Vermeer’s depict his trademark style of showing the calm and the soothing images of domestic life through the wonderful use of light and colors, especially cornflower blue. His paintings reflect transparent colors with the help of a coloring technique called pointille. This art of Vermeer’s is exemplified in his painting titled ‘The Soldier and Laughing Girl.’ His paintings are frequently used in film schools for illustrations. The titles of Vermeer’s paintings such as ‘Girl Interrupted at her Music (1660-61)’ and ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring (1665),’ have been used as film titles. Now own some art reproductions of Vermeer’s paintings is very easy for everyone.

Recognized during his lifetime in Delft and The Hague, his modest fame gave way to obscurity after his death; he was barely mentioned in Arnold Houbraken’s major source book on 17th century Dutch painting, and was thus omitted from subsequent surveys of Dutch art for nearly two centuries. Vermeer was rediscovered by Gustav Friedrich Waagen and Théophile Thoré-Bürger in the 19th century, who published an essay attributing sixty-six pictures to him, although only thirty-four paintings are universally attributed to him today. Vermeer’s reputation has grown after that time, and he is now regarded as one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age.

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