Art InformationJOHANNES (Jan) VERMEER INFORMATION
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761553291/Vermeer.html
PAINTINGS
Sideshow of Vermeer’s paintings with Classical Music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwRsYGL6LEg
Slideshow of Vermeer’s Paintings with Contemporary Music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNtCuQ6g1Cg
Dramatic Viewing of Girl with a Pearl Earring
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTgmtWoy3-4
Compares the Actual Paintings to Reproductions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ood78JOiJE4
Young Woman with a Water Picher
You are able to zoom in and check out the beautiful details.
http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/collection_database/european_paintings/young_woman_with_a_water_pitcher/objectView.aspx?&OID=110002334&collID=11&vw=0
A TREAT! Go to the National Gallery of Art’s Kids Page http://www.nga.gov/kids/kids.htm
1. Find Vermeer’s painting. Zoom in to find out what piece of jewelry in on the desk
2. Have fun creating on-line art!
TECHNIQUE
Camera Obscura-thought to be used by Vermeer
Camera = Latin for “room” Obscura = Latin for “dark”
Go into a very dark room on a bright day. Make a small hole in a window cover and look at the opposite wall. What do you see? Magic! There in full color and movement will be the world outside the window — upside down! This magic is explained by a simple law of the physical world. Light travels in a straight line and when some of the rays reflected from a bright subject pass through a small hole in thin material they do not scatter but cross and reform as an upside down image on a flat surface held parallel to the hole. This law of optics was known in ancient times.
http://brightbytes.com/cosite/what.html
BOOK INFORMATION and MORE!
http://www.scholastic.com/blueballiett/
AUTHOR
Blue Balliett, Author Information and Interview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiuYiRNiC1o
Author
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHUFuHt4goQ
A STUDENT BOOK REVIEW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bFdJHDKBjk
