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- Herausgeber: Publisher s13381
- Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
- Sprache: Englisch
Rembrandt van Rhein is considered one of the greatest artists in the history of art and the most significant painter and etcher in Dutch art history. Rembrandt never went abroad but was significantly influenced by the work of Italian masters and Dutch artists who studied in Italy. Having achieved great success as a portrait artist in his young years, his later years were marked by personal tragedy and financial difficulties. His works include a wide range of styles and themes, from portraits and self-portraits to landscapes, genre scenes, allegorical and historical scenes, biblical and mythological subjects, and animal sketches. Rembrandt's portraits of his contemporaries, his self-portraits, and illustrations of scenes from the Bible are considered to be his greatest creative triumphs. His self-portraits show us a unique and intimate biography in which the artist is studied without vanity and with the utmost sincerity. His most significant contribution in the history of graphics is the transformation of the etching process from a relatively new reproductive technique into a pure art form. His reputation as the greatest master in the history of the media has never been questioned. His images on the Bible were backed by Rembrandt's knowledge of the particular text, his assimilation of the classics, and his passage through the prism of his observations from the life of the Jewish population in Amsterdam. Rembrandt has produced over 600 paintings, nearly 400 engravings and 2000 oil paintings.
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Rembrandt
Drawings & Paintings (Annotated)
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Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
Foreword
Paintings and Drawings
Foreword
Rembrandt van Rhein is considered one of the greatest artists in the history of art and the most significant painter and etcher in Dutch art history. Rembrandt never went abroad but was significantly influenced by the work of Italian masters and Dutch artists who studied in Italy. Having achieved great success as a portrait artist in his young years, his later years were marked by personal tragedy and financial difficulties.
His works include a wide range of styles and themes, from portraits and self-portraits to landscapes, genre scenes, allegorical and historical scenes, biblical and mythological subjects, and animal sketches. Rembrandt's portraits of his contemporaries, his self-portraits, and illustrations of scenes from the Bible are considered to be his greatest creative triumphs.
His self-portraits show us a unique and intimate biography in which the artist is studied without vanity and with the utmost sincerity. His most significant contribution in the history of graphics is the transformation of the etching process from a relatively new reproductive technique into a pure art form. His reputation as the greatest master in the history of the media has never been questioned. His images on the Bible were backed by Rembrandt's knowledge of the particular text, his assimilation of the classics, and his passage through the prism of his observations from the life of the Jewish population in Amsterdam. Rembrandt has produced over 600 paintings, nearly 400 engravings and 2000 oil paintings.
In a number of his biblical works, Rembrandt was painted as a hero in the crowd. Among the more remarkable features of Rembrandt's creativity is its use of chiaroscuro, the theatrical play of light and shadow, borrowed from Caravaggio, or more likely from the Dutch Caravaggisti but adapted in a very individual way. Remarkable is also the dramatic and vibrant presentation of subjects devoid of the rigid formality that his contemporaries often show, and the deeply felt compassion for humankind, regardless of wealth and age. His closest family, his wife Saskia, his son Titus and his common-law wife Hendrickje, were often put in the forefront of his paintings, many of which had mythical, biblical or historical themes.
The drawings of Rembrandt and his students have been extensively studied by many artists and scientists over the centuries. His original design is described as an individualistic artistic style that is very similar to East Asian old masters, mostly Chinese masters: a combination of formal clarity and calligraphic vitality in the movement of a pen or brush that is closer to the Chinese painting in technique and feelings, than to anything familiar to us in European art before the twentieth century.
Throughout her career, Rembrandt has taken up portraits, landscape and narrative paintings as his central theme. For the latter, he was especially praised by his contemporaries who magnified him as a masterful interpreter of biblical stories and his ability to present emotions with attention to detail. Still, his paintings have undergone evolution from the early "smooth" style characterized by the fine technique of representation of the forms to the late "rough" treatment of richly varied painted surfaces, allowing for some "illusionism" of the form proposed by the tactile quality of paint.
A parallel development can also be seen in the Rembrandt skill as a printmaker. In etching during his maturity, the freedom of his drawings and paintings are also reflected in the print media. The works cover a wide range of objects and techniques, sometimes leaving large areas of white paper to offer space, and in other cases using complex grid of lines to produce richly nuanced dark tones. One-third of its etchings have religious themes, many of which are treated with brilliant simplicity, while others are more monumental in size. Several erotic compositions in graphic art have no equivalent in his paintings of oil paint. While he was forced to sell them to survive, he had a magnificent collection of prints from other artists. Rembrandt's contribution to the Dutch Golden Ages, when Dutch painting dominated Europe, is incomparable with any other contemporary or Dutch artist in general.
Paintings and Drawings
Self-portrait, 1628-29, Oil on canvas, 22.6 x 18.7 cm
