BAROQUE

REMBRANDT-THE NIGHT WATCH


The Night Watch, the cutdown in the eighteen century to fit into a space in a Amsterdam Town Hall.


rambrandt's a genius lay in depicting human emotions and characters. he suggested detail without including it and i find he is taking this appoach in The NIGHT WATCH. Here he concentrates on atmosphere and implication. in the the Barouqe art, the artist invites the viewers to share in an emotional experience, to enter in, rather than to observe.

the resulting scene shows great vigor and dramatic intensity,true to the baroque spirit. As a dramatic scene, the painting plays a common perfomance of baroque lighting and movements.Rembrandt presents a symbolic of a free people.some of the figures fade into the shadowa. Other stand hidden by the gestures of those placed in fornt of them.
Rambrandt has use light for dramatic purpose only. while in the figures appear realistically. no such claim can bemade for the light sources.


references :
Sporre, Dennis J, 2005. The Creative Impulse An Introduction to the Arts.,(7th edition)., Pearson Prentice Hall:Florance

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