It was-is-an interior by Johannes Vermeer, the great Dutch Baroque painter who specialized in these gorgeous domestic interiors and other genre scenes and wasn’t terribly prolific, completed only around 50 or so paintings during his lifetime, only about 35 of which survive today. The camera peers into a luminous, darkly furnished interior, all warm glow coming through heavy glass windows. And I have a distinct memory of one where a single scene made the three of us artsy grad students gasp out loud. Whenever anything remotely artsy arose in our environs, we were there-guiltily reading copies of The Da Vinci Code, going to all the student exhibitions on campus, and heading to our university town’s only indie theater to see whatever movie was out this week. There were three grad students, total, including myself, and we hung tight and close. In 2003, I was in graduate school at a university in the Midwest here in the U.S., and my art history program was small-I mean, tiny. Click on the list below and thank you for your purchases! This is all done at no cost to you, and serves as a means to help our show and independent bookstores. Please note that ArtCurious is a participant in the Affiliate Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to. Home to artist studios, residency opportunities, and exhibition space Anchorlight encourages mentorship and the cross-pollination of skills among creatives in the Triangle. Additional research and writing by Mary Manfredi.ĪrtCurious is sponsored by Anchorlight, an interdisciplinary creative space, founded with the intent of fostering artists, designers, and craftspeople at varying stages of their development. Please email or click the link below to get started. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. We have partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle our advertising/sponsorship requests. Storyblocks: Get unlimited downloads at Storyblocks, a subscription-based provider of stock video and audio
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