Feast of Exquisite Beauty is an art documentary series that explores the beauty of art masterpieces from a fresh perspective. Leading present-day artists from fields as diverse as photography, animation, and acting draw on the artistic sensibilities and techniques that they have developed in their respective careers as they look into the mystery of why certain artworks have had a huge appeal to successive generations. In this edition, we examine the 17th-century Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer’s internationally celebrated “Girl with a Pearl Earring”. Why is this painting so appealing? Leading Japanese photographer Kishin Shinoyama explores the secrets of its beauty. His first focus is the girl’s captivating eyes. Shinoyama uses a model to reproduce the painting as a photograph. He discovers that Vermeer’s representation of light was far ahead its time and that Vermeer had some amazing tricks up his sleeve. The unusual approach of having a photographer analyze a painter’s techniques leads to new ideas for enjoying art.
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