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Tim's Vermeer is a 2013 documentary film, directed by Teller, produced by his stage partner Penn Jillette and Farley Ziegler, about inventor Tim Jenison's efforts to duplicate the painting techniques of Johannes Vermeer, in order to test his hypothesis that Vermeer painted with the help of optical devices.
In 2005, NewTek founder, Tim Jenison, was inducted into the San Antonio Inventors Hall of Fame as the "Father of Desktop Video." In April 2019, NewTek was acquired by Vizrt for a sum of US$95.25 million, disclosed in Vizrt's Q2 report.
Nov 27, 2013 · With a film crew recording his every brush stroke, Tim Jenison, a Texas inventor, painted his version of Vermeer’s “The Music Lesson.”
Tim Jenison is a very rare type of inventor who combines an intense knowledge of technology with a childlike curiosity in world of art. In 1985, Jenison founded NewTek in a garage, and invented such video innovations as the Video Toaster and Lightwave 3D, both of which dramatically lowered the cost of television production.
- Frank Beacham
Jan 17, 2014 · Tim's Vermeer: Directed by Teller. With Tim Jenison, Penn Jillette, Martin Mull, Philip Steadman. Inventor Tim Jenison seeks to understand the painting techniques used by Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer.
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- Documentary, History
- Teller
- 2014-01-17
Jan 31, 2014 · Tim Jenison Talks TIM'S VERMEER, How the Idea for the Documentary Emerged, Duplicating Vermeer's Tools, His Plans to Write a Book, and More. By Sheila Roberts. Published Jan 31, 2014.
Nov 29, 2013 · Tim Jenison, a non-artist, spent nearly a decade attempting to re-create Johannes Vermeer’s The Music Lesson using a contraption some claim allowed the artist to create uncannily real paintings.
