Re: despite insult
In Reply to: despite insult posted by im feeling soft on 09/09/00 at 10:09 PM:

Thank you for not charging me for that information, Mr. Soft. But I was referring less to the visible brushstroke than to the greater illusion of topographical substance that appears in certain passages when viewing the canvas from the side. These are not unusual in Rembrandt's paintings; you can see them in many portraits where the sitter's golden necklace looks as though it should be sporting a 30-pound padlock. Some of the heavy impastos show no visible evidence of brush- or knife-work at all.

I'm deeply flattered that you would take the effort to applaud my sparkling sense of humor by refering to my earlier post as "hilarious." Modesty prevents me from claiming credit however. Heck, I can't tell a High Performance Liquid Chromatography from a Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometry. The credit rightfully belongs to the comedians at the Dutch chemical and materials group DSM and the Rembrandt Research Project Foundation. Some of the results of their joint efforts have been published in Ernst van de Wetering's popular Rembrandt: The Painter at Work. I highly recommend it. It's a fairly lengthy book and should keep you rolling on the floor laughing for weeks.

: The "rembrandtian impasto" is an illusion. Created either by
: 1- dirt that has sunken into the stroke indents
: 2- color actually rubbed into it
: 3- paint that was sticky due to action of the sun on it causing quicker oxidation.
: Any more info. and im going to charge for it
  Re: despite insult humorous   Posted at: 09/11/00 (0)