The Painted Word

“Looking at these “Rembrandt” prints a few years later, Picasso dryly commented to his mistress Françoise Gilot that “every painter takes himself for Rembrandt.” He was right. No artist in the Western canon, not Raphael, not Michelangelo, not even Goya, has been so compulsively co-opted as heroic alter ego as Rembrandt. Painters like Turner, Delacroix, and van Gogh, who self-consciously saw themselves as Rembrandt’s apostles, believed that he, more than any other artist, had modeled forms with light and color rather than with line.”

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