ARTH 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Body Language, Groo The Wanderer
24 Mar 2017
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Rembrandt got this, we don"t know that he ever went to italy but it appears that he absorbed the lessons indirectly through utrecht. Rembrandt is very young but fascinated by older people. Rembradt uses the face of an old man to evoke the destructure of the temple and city, ruin of an en;re people. Not a scene of ac;on, scene of contempla;on. Hand on the head, melancholy, interiorized, thoughts are visualized in his body language. Rembrandt isnt interested in space, light is inexplicable. How that event is registered through the ac;vity and gestures of a single individual. Ar;st builds up paint very thickly to give a sense of the deep crevaces and wrinkles on his face. Strokes evoca;ve of the buhons on his coat. Reversing the brush and scratching into the layers. How an object may appear to us may be radically di erent, what are the tricks necessary to create the illusion and pull it o .
