Rembrandt

Rembrandt

“They were made for each other, the painter and the city.” As it says in the flick of Simon Schama’s Rembrandt. If Rembrandt’s turbulent life was firmly tight with the city of Amsterdam, his paintings were connected with patrons. Especially portraits, for instance, the Nicolaes Ruts. Under Rembrandt’s strokes, this paintings acquires the essentials of any business men’s characters. While it has branded Nicolaes’s business, the use of light gives grasp of solidness and a shadow behind him. His eyes, brushed and slightly spaced out, imaging he is thinking of his trades. Delicate and thoughtful. This painting is in possession of a typical business man’s traits. It's the business man’s hero.

  The 83 years old woman is certainly in a mood of sorrow. The details surrounds her eyes, such as the trending down eyebrows, droopy eyelids and depressed sights have showed us her sense of vulnerability. And the solid background of hers creates a contrast on her soften face, makes her suffer what is in front of her.

      In his painting of Sampson & Delilah, Rembrandt was trying to express the relationships between characters and their fates within by highlighting gestures. Except the man in the further dark side, bright light is placed on Sampson’s back, Delilah’s face, hands and the standing man’s weapon-holding-hand. The facial expression of Delilah and the way she is touching Sampson’s hairs shows how much Sampson is in lack of strength. Showing nothing but Sampson’s back has also telling us that how vulnerable he has become. In his cloth, seems like he is trying to hide away from what is going to happen. Look at the man’s hand with brightness and veins popping out on the skin, it enhance the mood of madness, and stresses among everyone in the painting.