Self Portrait, 1665 - Rembrandt I guess deep down he did not care to be good or bad, or angry patient, greedy or generous ... It was nothing more than a glance and a hand. Moreover, and this selfish way, he had to win - what a word! - This kind of purity so obvious in his latest picture she is almost offensive. But it is by the narrow way of painting that he gets there.
If I were, broadly, roughly, remember this - one of the most heroic of modern times - I would say that in 1642 - but the man was already not trivial - misfortune surprises despair a young ambitious, talented, but also full of violence, vulgarities and exquisite delicacies.
Without hope of happiness one day reappear, with a terrible effort, he will try, because only painting remains, to destroy his work and in himself all the signs of the old vanity, as signs of his happiness and his dreams. At times he wants, since it is the goal of painting, represent the world, and both make it unrecognizable.
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This effort led him to get rid of everything in him could take him back to a different vision, discrete, hierarchical the world: a hand is a face, a face of a corner table, corner table, a stick, stick a hand, a hand a stick ...
Jean Genet, The secret of Rembrandt - 1958
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To the world and there never exist a single man. It is all in us, so it is ourselves. Each is the other and others.
Jean Genet, What remained of a Rembrandt torn into small squares very regular, and damn the crapper
aka White Fang Phoenix Coyotes
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