Rembrandt is a representative of the Dutch school of painting and one of the great European painters in the17th century. His paintings have a wide range of genres, and he is good at portraits, landscapes, genre paintings, religious paintings, historical paintings and other fields. He created more than 600 oil paintings, more than 300 etchings, more than 2,000 sketches and more than 0/00 self-portraits in his life, among which oil paintings and portraits occupy an important position.
Rembrandt's oil paintings usually use the technique of "light and shade", that is, with dark brown or light olive brown as the background, and then summarize the light into bunches of concentrated lines like the light of a flashlight, focus on the main part of the painting, and describe the light with darkness, which is the uniqueness of Rembrandt's painting.
For example, Night Patrol, one of his representative works, makes full use of the strong black-and-white contrast painting, shapes the body with light, and makes the picture very rich and dramatic.
Rembrandt is a man who can be desperate for painting. When he enters the studio, he may be completely immersed in painting for weeks on end. In order to take care of his son, Rembrandt hired an uneducated young village woman as a nanny and later gave birth to a child with her.
Now the whole Amsterdam is very excited. They think it's a scandal and adultery. The whole citizen class is excited by the opportunity to pour dirty water on noble souls. Everyone is watching the play, everyone is laughing at the painter, and Calvinist priests have begun to condemn the village women. The next violent storm broke out.
No one invited Rembrandt to paint any more, only various creditors began to collect debts. Rembrandt's life has been in trouble ever since. Rembrandt had a hard life in his later years, his property was auctioned and there were not many buyers of oil paintings. Order only etchings with religious themes. One of the works, entitled "100 Dutch Coin Prints", was named according to its selling price. A noble soul sank and the Dutch painting school began to decline.