GRAIN DE LA LUMIERE (LE)

COLLECTION PALETTES

of JAUBERT Alain

FRANCE, 1989, 00:30:00

Production : DELTA IMAGES, PAINI Dominique, MUSEE DU LOUVRE, FR3, LA SEPT, REUNION DES MUSEES NATIONAUX, MUSEE D'ORSAY
Collection : Musée du Louvre
Genre : Documentary
Keyword : Art, History of art, Painting, Astronomy, light, Homage, Photographs, Vision

Summary :
Choosing key-works in the imaginary of the Western culture, the series called “Palettes” tells in each episode the story of a different painting. In a word, it tells the genealogy of the painting. For a painting has its ancestors and its descendants. A double technical and philosophical knowledge, fed on by a long tradition, gave birth to the painting. And the painting itself gave birth, year after year, to a multitude of other images…
Assuming the idea that the deep meaning of a painting is conveyed by the choice of colours and themes, we dissect the canvas from its most visible composition to its deepest significance.

In the corner of a room, a light filtered by a window with little panes is lighting up the face of a amn who is bending over a celestial globe where the constellations and the Zodiac signs are drawn. The fundamental characteristic of Vermeer's artwork is the assimilation of the perspective to a photographic vision.
everything leads to think that Vermeer resorted to the "camera obscura", but the use of this ancestor of the camera is here only a facet of Vermeer's painting which are related to us.