A tech tycoon sets out to paint as well as Vermeer in a perky, entertaining documentary
Here is an entertaining and entirely watchable documentary that sets out to prove that any old brush-swinging amateur can paint as brilliantly as the 17th-century Dutch master. Orchestrated with ringmasters' verve by tricksters Penn and Teller (the former narrates, the latter directs), we are introduced to Tim Jenison, erstwhile computer pioneer, who made his pile developing software for graphics and video editing. Jenison's contention is that Vermeer's painting style is reproducible via a simple lens and angled mirror arrangement, and sets out to copy the complicated masterwork The Music Lesson, a painting coincidentally owned by Hm the Queen, which allows Penn Jillette a bit of comic business outside Buckingham Palace.
Possessing the down-home what-if-we-did-this perkiness much favoured by high-achieving tech tycoons, Jenison ploughs his way through every conceivable activity – from turning chair-legs on a...
Here is an entertaining and entirely watchable documentary that sets out to prove that any old brush-swinging amateur can paint as brilliantly as the 17th-century Dutch master. Orchestrated with ringmasters' verve by tricksters Penn and Teller (the former narrates, the latter directs), we are introduced to Tim Jenison, erstwhile computer pioneer, who made his pile developing software for graphics and video editing. Jenison's contention is that Vermeer's painting style is reproducible via a simple lens and angled mirror arrangement, and sets out to copy the complicated masterwork The Music Lesson, a painting coincidentally owned by Hm the Queen, which allows Penn Jillette a bit of comic business outside Buckingham Palace.
Possessing the down-home what-if-we-did-this perkiness much favoured by high-achieving tech tycoons, Jenison ploughs his way through every conceivable activity – from turning chair-legs on a...
- 1/16/2014
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
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