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Visitors lingered longest before one of the tiniest works on view, the Winter Landscape by Rembrandt (see cut at full-size). Rembrandt broke with the polished limning of his day to create a graphic shorthand of his own, which amounted to putting space in parenthesis. He prized economy of line as much as the Chinese masters, but where they were flattish and fluent, he was spacious and staccato. Simply by the power of his pen, Rembrandt could make plain paper take on the bright leaden hue of winter sky stretching heavy over snow-muffled acres. As easily it seems...
...program got under way with a staid, ten-minute monologue by the staid BBC's Edward Halliday. Then Sir Gerald broke into Halliday's lukewarm praise of a Rembrandt self-portrait. "My dear fellow," he boomed, "that's a bloody work of genius." Pointing out a drop of water on a tulip, Sir Gerald cried: "Look at that confounded drop of water. Looks as if it might fall off any moment. That's sheer damned skill." Of Rembrandt's A Man in Armour: "I just go all goo-goo when I stand in front...
That's the way that people laughed at Rembrandt, years...
...secondhand stuff-designed by Chippendale and other 18th century English carpenters. The old Crown Derby plates she ate off had occasional cracks, and the antique Paul Storr silver was once slobbered in by King George III. The pictures on the walls were horrors-the work of hacks like Rembrandt, Hals, Velasquez and Renoir...
...decided to model himself on Rembrandt, Goya, Chardin and U.S. Painter Thomas Eakins ("one of the greatest portraitists of all time"): "It was a matter of looking and looking and then working and working." The small public that buys pictures approved the results: his Manhattan show was a near sellout...