Paul Ingbretson Talks about Rembrandt’s Self Portraits - No. 80

Despite not being a key to understanding them, Rembrandt is doing a number of things suggestive of the thinking associated with the Boston School. This covers his use of light and particularly his ‘search’ mentality as well at the issue of expression.

In response to Kate

[henrydegroff]

Wow, I didn't know that Rembrandt learned so much from the Boston school! Fascinating!

[richardgiedd]

Thank you for another interesting talk,

[katalinfuto]

Thank you for your response, great discussion!

[canalcerrado]

Paul, in my opinion he leaves the hands unfinished and lost as to mimicking wen one sees... in nature, the eye can only focus on one thing at a time, he focuses on the head...and things around will be blurred...perhaps he realized this later ...

[wildfood]

Did you purposely set up the lighting in this video to look like Rembrandt lighting?

[davomak]

So many great artists throughout the course of time but only one Genius. REMBRANDT.

[PracticeDrawingThis]

You have to see the paintings in real life, the marks are sometimes astonishing, reproductions don’t do them justice.