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he threw it all away
Rembrandt. He was happily married and had one son. He was financially prosperous and creatively vigorous. But to a man of Rembrandt’s nature, prosperity and public adulation paled in comparison to finding solutions of problems in painting and new ways … Continue reading
composing with the “conversation piece”
As a solution to the problem of composition and context, “The Night Watch” by Rembrandt was a brilliant consolidation of a given number of figures into a group portrait and, under the conditions of this particular assignment, seems to have … Continue reading
The Night Shift
A misunderstood picture? … The figures in the picture are awarded varying degrees of prominence. The fact that some of them had all but disappeared, obscured through coats of yellowed varnish and layers of dirt, helped give rise to the … Continue reading
all together now
Group portraits represent one of the most vexing problems a painter is ever required to resolve requiring as it may, expressive ingenities that defy standard compositional devices… In a group portrait each member must be awarded their proportionate measure of … Continue reading
ustinov: comedic dissection
…Ustinov was particularly acerb about British education. “English adolescence,” he once said, “runs from first childhood to second childhood without a break. With Englishmen of fifty, one can see exactly what they looked like at four. With Italians on the … Continue reading
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