He relocated the business from Topeka, Kan., to San Antonio about 15 years ago because he was having problems recruiting. “I may have just been the right man in the right place at the right time,” he said. “Nobody could duplicate what he does,” he said. Perhaps out of modesty, Jenison attributes the excitement over the film to the enduring fascination with Vermeer. It also was nominated for a British Academy of Film and Television Arts award, aka, the British Oscar. Stop what you're doing until we can get a crew in there.'”Ī hit at the Telluride Film Festival, the documentary landed Jenison on the pages of Vanity Fair, and garnered a coveted spot in Entertainment Weekly's Must List. Who would buy a ticket to that? But Penn said, 'Trust me on this. “He said, 'This sounds like a movie,'” Jenison said. Then, over dinner, Jenison told his longtime friend Penn Jillette, the speaking member of famed magician duo Penn & Teller, about the project. Jenison, who'd never picked up a paintbrush, intended to paint one of the artist's works using the device.Īt first, it was a personal experiment. He decided to put their theories to the test by building a device that Vermeer could have used with the technology available at the time. To date, no documentation has been discovered that sheds light on Vermeer's methods, but in the version of the artist that Hockney and Steadman presented, Jenison recognized an experimenter and tinkerer - someone not unlike himself.
That's when I started doing my experiment.” “So that was a scientific mystery to me, and I thought it was fascinating. “I've discovered the way Vermeer paints is impossible, because the retina of the eye filters out the information that Vermeer puts in his pictures,” Jenison said. Looking at Vermeer's paintings, Jenison realized the painter had found a way to capture more than the unaided eye can see, including the fall of light from a window across a white wall.
In it, the architect and professor asserts that the artist used a camera obscura - basically a very large pinhole camera - a claim he backs up with an analysis of the perspective in six paintings. In addition to the book that set him on this path, David Hockney's “Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of Old Masters,” Jenison also read Philip Steadman's “Vermeer's Camera.”
BIJOU SAN ANTONIO SHOWS SOFTWARE
It took Jenison, the founder of NewTek, a company that produces video equipment and hardware and software used in computer animation, more than five years - most of it holed up in a studio warehouse near Six Flags Fiesta Texas - to come up with an answer. Tickets are available at or at the Bijou box office. Tim Jenison will do Q&A sessions following the 7 p.m. Will run though March 13, unless extended. Opens Friday at Santikos Bijou, 4522 Fredericksburg Road.
Video: Tim Jenison paints his father-in-law
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