with love, the art of painting

July.
A calm summer month for me, starting of with Saturn in Retrograde. In Pisces of all signs. Although it could be fitting due to Neptune representing artistic abilities. I welcome this month with my favourite painting by Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675). It truly depicts what I wish would be my everyday life, to create all day long.

The Art of Painting, 1666

A painting of a painter painting a painting.
Isn’t it absolutely beautiful? So inviting, yet just like the artwork by Edward Hopper, you can’t help but to feel like an observer. As if walking in to a room or a situation filled with life and movement. And just like Hopper, Vermeer’s paintings have a silent feeling and aura to them where you don’t want to say a single world in fear of disrupting the moment. So you revel in and accept the fact that you are the observer. His paintings are a true depiction of the 6th house of everyday life in astrology.
I feel like a bird should start chirping whenever I look at his stunning artworks.
It peaks my interest and by that I mean that I would gladly sit in the room with them (the painter being Vermeer himself) to see and be a part of what they’re creating.

His attention to details put him ahead of his time, to the point where it has been debated that he might have used a camera obscura to create his paintings. These allegations came about also thanks to Vermeer’s amazing measures and dimensions of different objects in his paintings and also the use of light that are all perfectly portrayed.

Camera obscura or not, I know damn well that EYE wouldn’t be able to create such a masterpiece with or without it. He did THAT!

This is what I want my forever life to look life.
Sleep, eat and create and repeat whether it be by writing, painting och photography.

Johannes Vermeer, the enigma. The Steven Meisel of painters.
A painting of a painter painting a painting.
Isn’t it absolutely beautiful? So inviting, yet just like the artwork by Edward Hopper, you can’t help but to feel like an observer. As if walking in to a room or a situation filled with life and movement. His paintings are a true depiction of the 6th house of everyday life in astrology.
I feel like a bird should start chirping whenever I look at his stunning artworks.
It peaks my interest and by that I mean that I would gladly sit in the room with them (the painter being Vermeer himself) to see and be a part of what they’re creating.

Fun fact, his painting from 1664 ’The concert’, were one of the 13 artworks that were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 18 March 1990.

His attention to details put him ahead of his time, to the point where it has been debated that he might have used a camera obscura to create his paintings. These allegations came about also thanks to Vermeer’s amazing measures and dimensions of different objects in his paintings and also the use of light that are all perfectly portrayed.

Camera obscura or not, I know damn well that EYE wouldn’t be able to create such a masterpiece with or without it. He did THAT!

This is what I want my forever life to look life.
Sleep, eat and create and repeat whether it be by writing, painting och photography.

Johannes Vermeer, the enigma. The Steven Meisel of painters.

If you want to learn more:
The Master Of Light: How Vermeer’s Intimate Scenes Made Him An Icon | Great Artists | Perspective (video, 29 minutes)