Word: rembrandt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...REMBRANDT PAINTINGS by Horst Gerson. 527 pages. Reynal in association with William Morrow...
...posters under black light are in their way more valuable than photographic reproductions of the Great Works of Fine Arts 13. With the poster you not only have the "picture" designed by the artist but the materials, the consistency and the total visual effect. With a paper edition of Rembrandt you hold only a deceitful shadow of the real object without the thick oil texture, the density, the depth that make the work great...
...gets easier and easier to fool yourself. We all teach our eyes to lie to us about what they see. But ink isn't oil, paper isn't canvas, a dollar-fifty print isn't Rembrandt. Sometimes it seems worth it to care about what is real. And it will grow on you by January...
Today, the conductor is a sort of curator, and he hangs up these equivalents of masterpieces by Rembrandt, only they're by Beethoven. And he tries to light them as well as possible and put them next to the right other picture, and that's called programming. The whole idea of the concert hall grew up with the idea of the symphony. It began in the 18th century and finished with the beginning of the 20th century: from Mozart to Mahler, roughly. The symphonic form is dead, finished. But why despair about it? Just accept it. That tremendous...
Reflectively, Carl Frederick Reuterswärd has polished a bronze tablet, and with an imitation of Rembrandt's signature on it, spelled out "Remembrandt." As the viewer gazes at it, his reflection becomes a part of the picture, suggesting that all art is based on the interplay between reality and the memory of how artists in ages past have dealt with the problem...