I'm reasonably sure Randy was just making a joke about the contrast between the words "illusion" and "reality."
OTOH:
"You may disagree, but this viewpoint has a pretty hefty pedigree."
Ah. So it's not just recently wrong, it's been wrong for a long time? Well, then.
I also point out, in the page you've cited, the sentence, "Such is the seductive beauty of his paintings that their subtle artifice often goes unnoticed," right after the phrase, "illusion of reality." Often != always. I'd say Vermeer is a bad example of "illusion of reality," actually... his light is very specific to him. (Not unlike Christopher Walken's line, it's really tough to go hire a "Vermeer type.") It's precisely because I have a sense of how difficult Vermeer's light is to work with that I had a very strong positive reaction to the cinematography of Eduardo Serra in Girl With a Pearl Earring -- because he came so close, and got it so right.
You may disagree, but this viewpoint is based on direct empirical observation.
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OTOH:
"You may disagree, but this viewpoint has a pretty hefty pedigree."
Ah. So it's not just recently wrong, it's been wrong for a long time? Well, then.
I also point out, in the page you've cited, the sentence, "Such is the seductive beauty of his paintings that their subtle artifice often goes unnoticed," right after the phrase, "illusion of reality." Often != always. I'd say Vermeer is a bad example of "illusion of reality," actually... his light is very specific to him. (Not unlike Christopher Walken's line, it's really tough to go hire a "Vermeer type.") It's precisely because I have a sense of how difficult Vermeer's light is to work with that I had a very strong positive reaction to the cinematography of Eduardo Serra in Girl With a Pearl Earring -- because he came so close, and got it so right.
You may disagree, but this viewpoint is based on direct empirical observation.