Word: artistically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dimly lighted room of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts a lady pointed her glove at two almost identical prints of a round faced artist sitting near a window. "Can you see the difference?" she asked the boy standing next to her. And showed him where a shadow of tightly woven lines crept over the side of the face in one print, softening the mouth and eyes. This conversation startled the carpeted gallery out of its silence. Businessmen, students and more ladies offered advice in distinguishing the difference between other apparently similar prints, exhibited around the room...
...adjusted to the darkly inked surfaces, changes in detail emerged. And eventually a row of five landscapes neatly placed on the wall, like copies of a photograph, dissembled before the viewers into individual images, each with its own mood. It became clear that without changing the basic design, an artist can adjust the components of ink paper or line and produce an image of different quality...
...image, By emphasizing the changes he made on a single plate, the exhibition currently at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts shows the evolution of impressions from the same print. Though each landscape or biblical scene is complete in itself, it forms a step in the growth of the artist's progressive conception of a print. This small but awesome exhibition, Rembrandt: Experimental Etcher, honors the artist by following his creative process...
Restlessly attempting to improve his work, Rembrandt would add or remove lines from the copper plate with which he printed. According to the catalogue, alteration of this plate constitutes a change of "state" in the print. But within each state the artist experimented with ink and paper tone. Rembrandt often printed an image on particularly dark or absorbent paper to soften the black lines. Sometimes by wiping the ink off the plate before printing, he let light from the surface of the paper glow through the network of lines. Intricate juxtaposition of black and white makes the billowing robe...
...miniscule changes in de Jonghe's facial expression suggest conflicting thoughts. Does the sitter look different because his mood changed each time he posed for Rembrandt, or did Rembrandt merely illustrate a different aspect of his nature? Or is it the artist's own opinion of de Jonghe that develops through the changing states? The prints spin out the shifting relationship between artists and sitter. Beyond this the progression suggests that changes within the viewer himself will make a print appear different each time he approaches...