But in any case, he has taken that childhood pass time of trying to see the shapes in the clouds and has created the shapes in the clouds of this painting. And some of you may have also seen our current exhibition with the girl with the pearl ear ring, there are not any clouds in this composition and i could not fabricate them and so i wanted to speak about this painting that is also in the collection of the maritz house it actually has three competitions and this was probably the most famous in the works in the collection up until the publication of the novel girl with the pearl ear ring and i will be doing a conversation with her next thursday, the 28th and that will be live google plus streamed. All sorts of fun technology. But before the publication of her book, and the subsequent film, this was probably one of the most famous compositions by verm ere, certainly the most famous, and has three paintings and i love that the way that the clouds hang so low and it is actually much dark
The overhauled it and i published this site. And it is a huge archive and i looked at it as unlimited possibilities for editing and archiving and curating and publishing and i thought it was just amazing that i have the power at my fingertips to do anything that i wanted without any sort of limits only right here was the only limit and so the site really features other peoples work and i dont put my work on it and it is basically, i thought, what can i do Something Like interview magazine like warhol did . I have the tools and i started five years ago and it has grown into huge proportions, i think when i checked there are 150,000 unique visitors a month reading it. So it has gotten quite an audience, but really it is something that i would love, it is just pure passion and it is also a selfeducation of mine on display and my own interest. And i think i will wrap it up. Thanks. [ applause ] so for those of you who came in late, if you could hold your questions, we are not going to do a
Curtorial team of San Francisco since 2008. And currently holds the position of assistant curator for european art. It has supported works from the 15th century, such as the mourners, cultures from the court of bergandy to the 19th century, including van gogh, and beyond master pieces. And she served as the assistant curator for the blockbuster, girl with the pearl earrings, including impressionists on the water and matice from sf mona to be honored later this year. We invited melissa to speak because he told me that his cloud series was inspired by growing up looking at dramatic skies in dutch landscape painting. Welcome. Thank you to everyone who came out this evening to the main branch of the public library, i felt like it was encased in a cloud with all of the fog and the rain and everything and so i have literally taken on this assignment with a great personal interest and i am seeing clouds everywhere. And when they first called one morning, and introduced herself and told me a l
I do Something Like interview magazine like warhol did . I have the tools and i started five years ago and it has grown into huge proportions, i think when i checked there are 150,000 unique visitors a month reading it. So it has gotten quite an audience, but really it is something that i would love, it is just pure passion and it is also a selfeducation of mine on display and my own interest. And i think i will wrap it up. Thanks. [ applause ] so for those of you who came in late, if you could hold your questions, we are not going to do a formal q, and a, but i will ask each of the panelists to stick around and if you want to chat with them one on one, they will be veil for a little while to do that. Our next panelist is melissa. They earned her ba in 2005 and her ma in 2007. She worked in new york at christies auction house and the time warner center, the Museum Experience includes the Research Positions in new york and the victor annual beter museum in london. She has been a member
Thanks. [ applause ] so for those of you who came in late, if you could hold your questions, we are not going to do a formal q, and a, but i will ask each of the panelists to stick around and if you want to chat with them one on one, they will be veil for a little while to do that. Our next panelist is melissa. They earned her ba in 2005 and her ma in 2007. She worked in new york at christies auction house and the time warner center, the Museum Experience includes the Research Positions in new york and the victor annual beter museum in london. She has been a member of the curtorial team of San Francisco since 2008. And currently holds the position of assistant curator for european art. It has supported works from the 15th century, such as the mourners, cultures from the court of bergandy to the 19th century, including van gogh, and beyond master pieces. And she served as the assistant curator for the blockbuster, girl with the pearl earrings, including impressionists on the water and m