>"Tim's Vermeer" A neat but sorta terrible documentary. The central claim is that Vermeer absolutely must have used a camera lucida because his detail would ot

>"Tim's Vermeer" A neat but sorta terrible documentary. The central claim is that Vermeer absolutely must have used a camera lucida because his detail would otherwise be impossible. In particular I remember the 'expert' claiming that a certain smooth gradation was impossible to paint without optical tools. Maybe for a modernist like Hockney, but there are painters with academic training who achieve that kind of work without optical tools. I'm not saying Vermeer didn't experiment with such tools, but the claims to their criticality in his process are a joke.