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Friday, November 16th 2007

1:30 PM

Rembrandt's "The Night Watch" painted in 1642, compared to a 1632 painting

Rembrandt's "The Night Watch" painted in 1642, compared to a 1632 painting, I'm assuming representing a painting of "The Ascension of Christ",.. some peoples considered Lord & Savior.
night-watch.jpg picture by vanrijngo
 
 
The art of Rembrandt, his drawings and paintings - The night watch
 
Thanks to his massive talent for composition, Rembrandt never seemed to have any problem with how to arrange group portraits, not even in his teenage days as a painter. His ultimate group portrait (and perhaps THE ultimate group portrait) is the Night Watch.
A group portrait is a problem of perspective (perspective enters when not all the people are at equal distance from the observer, the challenge is to get the proportions exactly right) and also of behavior: the artist must paint his subjects such that everyone seems to be doing something natural and logical. The Night watch is famous for it's orderly chaos: the people aren't lined up statically, but everyone seems to do as he likes, while each individual fits into the group portrait naturally.

AnonMysterySubjectWarsawNational-1.jpg picture by vanrijngo
 

Now,... with possibly of using your own imaginations, let's imagine that what was said above about "The Night Watch" pertains to this painting also,.. and say for instance the top portion of this painting at one time was cut down as for the room to hang it,... to where the ceiling was not high enough to accommodate as large of painting, just as "The Night Watch" was reduced in size.  What exactly would you think would be cut off?  Well,... I'll tell you my art loving minded friends,... the ones who happen to read my bloggs. I Believe it was the portion in which this gentleman to the right who is being held back,.. is looking at.  I'll give you all a clue,... by adding one of my own paintings out of my own collection below, to possibly help show you what could have been what the artist represented, or possibly what in similarities had been cut from this painting.

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Request for reactions to large, high-quality but as yet unattributed Flemish painting in Warsaw: an appeal from Hanna Benesz

Wednesday 24 October 2007

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Now speaking in general of composition, I would say myself, that there is a lot of similarities, of both compositions, from this unattributed Flemish painting in Warsaw, as to Rembrandt's Night Watch.  Now if you care to compare the lay-out of the different subject matters,... the complete compositions as a whole, or the seemingly three grouped sections of both painting, while keeping in mind that they both represent something totally different. Rembrandt, I believe was trying to show his viewers, their inner self-conscious minds, the real main themes of these paintings, what it is in those two paintings, which are causing and bringing on all of the different emotions. 

night-watch.jpg image by vanrijngo

In not using the documented words of Rembrandt, which was spoken to his good friend Dr. van Loon,... when sitting him down in front of this Monstrous Painting of "The Night Watch",.... I'll try and get across too you all,... the main hidden just of these paintings.  Please keep in mind that there was a ten year span in time of these two painting of being painted, that we are comparing,... from 1632 to 1642 the year of his wife Saskia's death.  I'll add the same small picture from time to time, as to where you don't have to go back to it, and lose your spot of reading.

night-watch.jpg image by vanrijngo

Now,.. let us begin!  Imagine yourselves going out on the town, to your favorite night club dinner house, with your spouse or who ever, for an evening of fun and frolic,.... oops,... excuse me,... for I think I used a partial phrase of his.  Anyway while you're sitting there eating your dinner and enjoying your drink, and glancing out towards the dance floor,.. listening to the music and watching the band play, people are cutting a little jig to the music, looking like they're having the time of their life.  You just want to finish your dinner and get out there and join in on the fun with your own partner. 

night-watch.jpg image by vanrijngo

I know what you are all thinking,.... what the hell is this guy looking at,... and out of what?  Has he been drinking Absinthe again, like Vincent van Gogh did, lost his mind and hallucinating in the name of art?  Not really my friends, for I've the same perspective vision of both Rembrandt and Vincent van Gogh.  Now in getting back to this picture my friends, imagine in the foreground there is this tall beautiful brunette young lady, pulling up her dress in front while dancing with the lieutenant in black who is doing his little jig around her. 

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If you look between the two of them, you just might see another Dutchman in a hat with a feather, flailing his arms and body around while dancing with his own partner.  The obscure face of the little witch with the dead chick tied to her side, become the shoulder and beautiful something or other of this tall young thing that you are looking at as she is dancing.
 
leiutdance.gif (397078 bytes) night-watch.jpg image by vanrijngo  
 
Behind the lieutenant is his Captain,... in his yellow hat, the actual taller of the two, who is having himself a little feel-up time with the honey who has her head laying on his shoulder.
 
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This would be the music source, along with the guy up on stage with the other dancers, one who knows and can sing the words to the song that they are playing.
 
To find the documented words of my own patended discovery, you can click on the link below.
http://home.rmci.net/art-zee/newweb/rem8d.html
 
Cheers!
vanrijngo 
1 string-along(s).

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