15 July it was 411 years since the birth of
the great Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn (1606 - 1669).
It was an artist and humanist, who devoted all his great talent
the statement of faith in the power, the beauty of the soul
wealth and spirituality.
Rembrandt was born in Leiden into the family of a Miller.
He graduated from the Latin school and studied for some time
in the famous Leiden University.
Early founded talent makes him give all his strength of art.
Teacher Rembrandt - artist Swanenburg
and the Amsterdam painter Pieter Lastman
help him to master professional skills.
Artistic development Rembrandt is very fast.
By the early thirties it becomes
the famous master.
The artist moved to Amsterdam a major centre of the Netherlands of the time
where is rapidly gaining universal recognition.
30-ies - the time of establishment of the basic principles of the art of Rembrandt.
He carefully observes people and everything that surrounds it.
These were happy years for the artist. In his works, this time he reveals his characteristic optimism and love of life
One of the best works in those years is "self-Portrait with Saskia on his knees".
In it, he with his wife at the dinner table, dressed in elegant clothes,
they are happy and smiling, as if invited, standing in front of a painting of the audience, to join.
Looking at the characters in the movie, the audience catch their joyful mood.
Rembrandt often drawn to subjects from ancient mythology and the Bible.
But the biblical scenes he portrays, as contemporary events.
Rembrandt sees the world not only in light forms.
Already in 1637 in the small painting "Parable of the workers
in the vineyard," he reveals the gospel legend
as a dramatic scene of modern life.
The indignant master of the workers, require a fair wage.
This painting became the first work of Dutch art,
which shows the lives of ordinary people.
Rembrandt received an order for a large group portrait of a rifle company
the painting called "Night watch".
He changed the tradition of group portrait.
Rembrandt portrayed the members of a company acting in the campaign, combining
the heroes a single action.
But customers, Dutch burghers, rejected the painting, they are not fascinated
the ideals of the revolution.
The failure of "Night Watch" deepened the divide by Rembrandt with the bourgeois circles of the Netherlands.
The popularity of the artist falling, less and less he had received orders,
heavier became his financial situation,
less remained friends.
But with 40 years Rembrandt creates his best works.
He tries to show the depth of human experience and
reveals the subtlest movements of the soul.
Often in his paintings there are images of people
passed a difficult way and seasoned.
A significant place in the work of Rembrandt is lyrical and family scenes.
In the wonderful painting "the Holy family", the artist draws
the image of a young mother, who illumined by the love for his child.
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Rembrandt as the greatest portraitist in the world.
Mostly he writes of people and their self-portraits.
In portraits he reveals the inner world of man.
One of the best portraits - "Portrait of the wife of the brother."
The artist has created the image of a simple old woman with a wrinkled face,
seen a lot of severe in life and knowing what hard work is.
But her face also lit by the love of the people and
warmth, despite all the hardships of life.
Paintings and engravings of Rembrandt - a legacy of the great master,
one of the great figures of world culture.
It became the province of all mankind.
Pictures from the Internet.