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© 1996 Victor Acevedo; The Lacemaker is an homage to the famous same-titled painting by Johannes Vermeer from 1665. I was always fascinated how Dali became obsessed with this image for a time in the middle 1950s. He went on to paint his own abstracted rendering of it in, which
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Acevedo's Lacemaker was based on a 35mm photograph taken by and scanned by the artist. Over it he composited computer graphic geometry that was built with Softimage 3D modeling software running on a Silicon Graphics Computer. The compositing and final mastering was done with Adobe Photoshop running on a MAC. The earliest hardcopy of the image was generated as Iris ink jet prints on deckled-edge Somerset water color paper. More recently prints in signed limited editions have become available output as Epson pigment inkjet prints on archival paper or as Light Jet digital photographic prints.
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Victor Acevedo 24-03-2021
The Lacemaker is one of Acevedo's most well know works. It was exhibited at the ACM/SIGGRAPH98 Art Show called Touchware in Orlando, Florida, U.S July 19-24 1998. Concurrently it was featured in the gallery section of the magazine called Computer Graphics World (Volume 21 No.7). The following year it was featured in the ACM/SIGGRAPH documentary called The Story of Computer Graphics.
Victor: The Lacemaker is an homage to the famous same-titled painting by Johannes Vermeer from 1665. I was always fascinated how Dali became obsessed with this image for a time in the middle 1950s. He went on to paint his own abstracted rendering of it in, which is quite nice. For my version, I took the original photograph of a friend on New Year's Eve 1995. ?
I hadn't consciously set out to do it, but all the elements came together in a split second of recognition. Not consciously posing, she happened to be reassembling a bracelet that had come undone. She appeared to be emulating the posture of the woman in Vermeer's painting, at that instant, I snapped the picture.
As a student, Vermeer and early Velasquez were influences. I loved how they took everyday life as their subject. The 1995 New Year's Eve synchronicity underscores my continuing interest in everyday life as seen, recorded and then digitally re-visioned into a kind of meta-physical photographic archive.
Victor Acevedo: The Lacemaker, 24-03-2021, in: Archive of Digital Art The Lacemaker is one of Acevedo's most well know works. It was exhibited at the ACM/SIGGRAPH98 Art Show called Touchware in Orlando, Florida, U.S July 19-24 1998. Concurrently it was featured in the gallery section of the magazine called Computer Graphics World (Volume 21 No.7). The following year it was featured in the ACM/SIGGRAPH documentary called The Story of Computer Graphics.
Victor: The Lacemaker is an homage to the famous same-titled painting by Johannes Vermeer from 1665. I was always fascinated how Dali became obsessed with this image for a time in the middle 1950s. He went on to paint his own abstracted rendering of it in, which is quite nice. For my version, I took the original photograph of a friend on New Year's Eve 1995. ?
I hadn't consciously set out to do it, but all the elements came together in a split second of recognition. Not consciously posing, she happened to be reassembling a bracelet that had come undone. She appeared to be emulating the posture of the woman in Vermeer's painting, at that instant, I snapped the picture.
As a student, Vermeer and early Velasquez were influences. I loved how they took everyday life as their subject. The 1995 New Year's Eve synchronicity underscores my continuing interest in everyday life as seen, recorded and then digitally re-visioned into a kind of meta-physical photographic archive.
Literature
Frank, Peter and Charlotte Frost and Thomas Miller and Michael J. Masucci and Victor Acevedo. Acevedo in Context: Analog Media 1977-1987 • Digital Media 1983 - 2020. 1st th ed.Los Angeles, CA. USA: Acevedomedia, 2022.
Joan Truckenbrod, Chair: The Art Gallery: Touchware. ACM SIGGRAPH Electronic Art and Animation Catalogue
Computer Graphics Annual Conference Series 1998
ISBN 1-58113-045-7
ISSN 1098-6154
© 1998 ACM Association for Computing Machinery
https://digitalartarchive.siggraph.org/person/victor-acevedo/. Vol.ISBN 1-58113-045-7. New York, NY: ACM Association for Computing Machinery, 1998.
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