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Rembrandt: Genius,or just plain sloppy?

  • 09-11-2005 6:20pm
    #1
    muesli_offire
    Closed Accounts Posts: 152 ✭✭


    Just saw several Rembrandts in Louvre recently - Self-portrait, The Flayed Ox, etc - Can anyone give me the nitty-gritty on his style/method and its novelty (or otherwise)?


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  • #2
    Monkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 927 ✭✭✭Monkey


    Rembrandt is not messy. This is messy:

    15641_39.jpg

    Rembrandt is using the sensual possibilities of the paint. Is that what you mean by "messy"? Rembrandt is not a novelty. Its serious stuff.


  • #3
    muesli_offire
    Closed Accounts Posts: 152 ✭✭muesli_offire


    I did not use the word "messy".


  • #4
    snorlax
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,381 ✭✭✭snorlax


    sloppy and messy have similiar connotations.

    my opinion of his work would be that he used good, rich brushwork and from what i know he was an expert in the technique of chiarscuro.

    i also like the use of light in some of his pictures eg this one, i think it brings up the skin tones pretty well.

    self-1629.jpg


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