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A sketch for a big size picture. This artwork has dimensions 40x50cm

The Artist’s Studio | Jan Vermeer | c.1665-66 | oil on canvas | 47 ¼ × 39 ⅜ in / 120 x 100 cm | Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria 🇦🇹 | #272SeventeenthCentury Jan Vermeer's (1632-75) Woman Holding a Balance uses potent symbolism, but in this work he goes further and creates a full-blown allegory, commenting it seems on the painter's art and role in society. This allegorical approach, and the fact that it is one of his largest paintings, makes it an unusual piece for Vermeer. What is not unusual are the light effects and the detailed compositional planning. His passion for optical effects and aids may well have led him to use a camera obscura to plot the pictures main lines. Viewers look through a tantalizingly parted curtain to a brightly lit studio beyond. An artist sits at his easel with his back to us. Could this be Vermeer himself? The artist's model would have been readily recognizable to Vermeer's contemporaries as Clio, the muse of History, because she wears a laurel crown and carries a book and trumpet. On a table lie a sketch book, treatises on painting, and a mask (a symbol of imitation). A wall map shows the provinces of the Low Countries prior to 1581. This painting seems to say that history inspires the artist, provides art's most worthy subject matter, and confers status on artists who choose it as their subject. However, as Vermeers work appears to go against that trend, others suggest that the painting refers to the ways in which artists use skillful illusion to turn fleeting effects into something eternal. This picture is often said to be Vermeer's finest and his family kept it, despite the fact that, when Vermeer died, his wife Catherina and their eleven children were left bankrupt. AK 1001 Before You Die Collection Masterpieces of Western Art and Architecture #1001beforeyoudiecollections

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Into the Matrix. Further adaptations of my original 2D artwork into 3D which, so far, seems to give some really interesting compositions. All of my work can be found on my Instagram art page: @Shidifu.art #3dmodeling #blendercommunity #surrealism #surrealart #design #3ddesign #modeling #blenderrender #work #artwork #instagram #art

Some recently framed works by Turner Framing. One of the things we try and do is bring out the colour in an artwork. We try and avoide brown and gold frames. We keep things simple and focus on sharpness and style. #art #artcollectors #belfast #artgalleries #pictureframing #interiordesign