Jonathan Janson paints today’s interwebby people in a 17th c. Dutch sort of way. Among his works are Girl in a Red Cap, Young Man with a Cell Phone, and my favorite, Young Girl Writing an Email.
Janson’s paintings have the luminous quality that made Vermeer famous, and his website, Essential Vermeer, indicates he’s spent a lot of time studying the master. He’s learned some good lessons.
popeyeisgood
i think his paintings are quite boring. just because he is putting the modern ojects and people in a vermeer setup doesn’t mean it is neat. in fact it is quite cheesy imo.i can bring you countless nowadays old master wannabes with so-called modern life elements in it and they are all the same to me. nothing exciting.
Alex
Boring? Oh no – it’s quite difficult to paint like Vermeer. Quite very difficult. What Janson did was awesome. Unless, of course, you can paint like the Old Masters, popeyeisgood.
matt
i’d agree that the artist’s skill of pushing paint is extremely high. they remind as much as Vincent Desiderio as they do Vermeer. but if the concept is simply to throw a contemporary spin to Vermeer’s settings (ala “haha! art in-joke!!!”), my liking of them goes down.
Allen T Garvin
I love the Girl Playing a Guitar. I’d love to see something done with other instruments.
popeyeisgood
it is difficult to be a copycat because you will never be as good as the one you copy. and if you understand art a little bit you know that copying is actually easier to get quicker result for beginner. but after all, i think an ” artist” who wants to be painting like some others are pretty soulless. i mean, taking good thing from vermeer is fine, but to taking his whole composition and painting technique also the ways he drew people and then just put a little modern objects in there is embarrassing.
skill is important but if a painting only consist of that then i really dont appreciate it.
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