Week 5

I learned alot this week about Baroque art and we each got an artist in that peroid of time and I got Rembrandt Van Rjjn and he did alot of portriats of himself and other people. And used alot of dark colors.

Baroque Art- Rembrandt Van Rijn

Rembrandt Van Rijn

By Alice Marin

                Rembrandt Van Rijn was born 15 July 1606 in Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (now Netherlands). His nationality is Dutch. He was the ninth child born to Harmen Gerritszoon van Rijn and Neeltgen Willemsdochter van Zuytbrouck. He was a Dutch painter, etcher and also did printmaking. His family was quite well-to-do; his father was a miller and his mother was a baker's daughter. As a boy he attended Latin school and was enrolled at the University of Leiden, He is generally considered to be the one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art history and the most important in Dutch history. His contributions to art came in a period that historians call the Dutch Golden Age. His inspiration was from people and the bible.

                Rembrandts greatest creative triumphs are exemplified especially in his portraits of his contemporaries, self-portraits and illustrations of scenes from the Bible. His self-portraits form a unique and intimate biography, in which the artist surveyed himself without vanity and with the utmost sincerity. In his paintings and prints he exhibited knowledge of classical iconography, which he molded to fit the requirements of his own experience the depiction of a biblical scene was informed by Rembrandt's knowledge of the specific text.

                Earlier 20th century connoisseurs claimed Rembrandt had produced over 600 paintings, nearly 400 etchings and 2,000 drawings. His prints, traditionally all called etchings, although many are produced in whole or part by engraving and sometimes dry point, have a much more stable total of slightly fewer than 300. It is likely he made many more drawings in his lifetime than 2,000, but those extant are more rare than presumed. Throughout his career Rembrandt took as his primary subjects the themes of portraiture, landscape and narrative painting. For the last, he was especially praised by his contemporaries, who extolled him as a masterful interpreter of biblical stories for his skill in representing emotions and attention to detail.  Stylistically, his paintings progressed from the early 'smooth' manner, characterized by fine technique in the portrayal of illusionistic form, to the late 'rough' treatment of richly variegated paint surfaces, which allowed for an illusionism of form suggested by the tactile quality of the paint itself.

                Rembrandts art is considered to be Baroque art because it uses a lot of of portraits of him and other portraits he painted of other people. He also takes the bible and takes a real life scene and paints a scene from the bible and brings it to life with paint and sketching.

                It was during Rembrandt's Leiden period (1625–1631) that Last man’s influence was most prominent. It is also likely that at this time Lievens had a strong impact on his work as well. Paintings were rather small, but rich in details (for example, in costumes and jewelry). Religious and allegorical themes were favored, as were tronies, half-length figures not intended as specific portraits.  In 1626 Rembrandt produced his first etchings, the wide dissemination of which would largely account for his international fame. In 1629 he completed Judas Repentant, Returning the Pieces of Silver and The Artist in His Studio, works that evidence his interest in the handling of light and variety of paint application, and constitute the first major progress in his development as a painter.

                The way Rembrandts art affected today’s art is pretty big it’s the reason why we do paintings and portraits of ourselves and he also did print making and that affected us today by us having modern art and us doing art on the computer and being able to print make today.

                I like how Rembrandt did his art and how he thought very deeply and made the bible come out with life into pictures and how he did print making back then.

Symbolic Colors

Blue- Tranquility
Red- Anger, feisty
Green- Fertility, peaceful
Black- Bleek, darkness
White- Graceful
Yellow- Happy, joyful
Violet- Royalty
Orange- Energetic, excited
Grey/Brown- Earthy