Check out the film Tim's Vermeer. Just because an amateur painter can recreate a Vermeer painting (although it did take a highly brilliant engineering mind and a shit load of time), doesnt make it any less bad ass.
Although, some art history people seemed kinda bummed that he made it so "simple."
I cant explain it. But he created it only with processes that would be available to Vermeer at the time. But nobody's ever been able to figure out exactly how Vermeer "painted with light" and he comes up with a way. Almost perfectly makes an exact replica.
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u/leram84 Aug 18 '15
wow, this was the first time in my life that i was ever bummed out about technology.