Rembrandt van Rijn. Greatest works. Rembrandt van Rijn Rembrandt van Rijn is generally considered one of the greatest painters in European art history and the most important painter in Dutch history.
Rembrandt is known as a painter of light and shade and as an artist who favoured an uncompromising realism. Rembrandt possessed an exceptional ability to render people in their various moods and dramatic guises. No artist ever combined more delicate skill with more energy and power. In all, Rembrandt produced over 600 paintings, 300 etchings, and 2,000 drawings.
Greatest Works by Rembrandt Although it is difficult to define one Rembrandt painting as better than another, several of his works have reached immortal fame. The Return of the Prodigal Son (1669) Get a high-quality picture of The Return of the Prodigal Son for your computer or notebook. ‣ This piece is the most monumental of Rembrandt's paintings and stands above the achievements of all other Baroque artists of the time in its evocation of mood and human tenderness. Art. New Rembrandt revealed - News - Art. Violence, loathing, beauty, pain: How Rembrandt influenced Francis Bacon - Features - Art. Us looking at Penn looking at Bacon looking at Rembrandt.
Penn's portrait is full of questions, prime among them the one of who chose its mise-en-scène. Did Bacon ask to be photographed in front of a dead Old Master, or was it Penn who saw a connection between the two men, and if so of what kind? Bacon was 52 when Penn's picture was taken, although, with his cherub cheeks and boot-polish-blacked hair, he looks 20 years younger. Rembrandt was 51 when he painted the Aix self-portrait and seems 20 years older. Like Bacon, he had lived beyond his means; unlike Bacon, his luck had run out.
Nothing in Bacon's life or art is ever easy, his take on Rembrandt least of all. Maybe acts of homage are always tinged with loathing; certainly, Bacon's seems that way. It may, of course, have been a kind of empathy. If there is hate in Bacon's love of Rembrandt, then it may have something to do with their differing views of age. In a sense, all of the Dutch Master's self-portraits are double portraits. Rembrandt - The First Impressionist. • The First Impressionist As I have mentioned, Courbet was known as the grandfather of Impressionism, and Manet the father.
Turner was also given that title, "Father of Impressionism" but in a way they're all wrong. If they were right, then Rembrandt might well be called the great grandfather of Impressionism - but he was far more than that; Rembrandt was the first Impressionist. Impressionism simply means that instead of working your end results up to a high "photographic" finish through a number of layers of semi-transparent paint, (called glazes) you "sketch" in your painting directly onto the canvas with no under-painting, therefore giving an "impression" of something rather than a graphic likeness.
Although Frans Hals became the artist most famous for using this technique, that was only because Hals used only this technique, and in a very hit and miss manner; Rembrandt on the other hand only used it occasionally, but never "missed. "