Word: rembrandt
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Above all, there is no analysis of character. We feel we learn something about Rembrandt from looking at the late self-portraits. About Close's sitters, one learns nothing-except that they have more pores than the travertine of the Colosseum. One's curiosity about who they may be is stifled by Close's relentlessly forensic approach. The images verify without interpreting; each face is as naked as a body, a piece of unveiled skin with orifices. It is neither blank nor expressive, but simply there-a topographical essay, like a fulsomely detailed map that has somehow...
...viewer can select which of the up to 54,000 frames on the record he wants to see by pushing buttons on a keyboard; each frame has its own number. For instance, on a disc that contains images of art masterpieces, a viewer could jump from a picture of Rembrandt's Self-Portrait to Degas's Ballet Scene in a matter of seconds. Sound for the program can also be reproduced in stereo...
...Madrid mandatory is the Prado, one of the world best art museurns. What can one say about a museum that has an unparalleled collection of Spanish masters, including El Greco, Goya and Velasquez, as well as pre-Renaissance and Renaissance Italian paintings and works by Bosch, Bruegel, Rubens and Rembrandt...
...increasing energy shortage and escalating costs, the spectacle of a forest of suburban windmills might become as attractive for some people as Dutch windmills in a Rembrandt landscape. And the sound of a steadily humming windmill down the street could eventually prove to be the sweetest music that you could hear...
Albert is forever coaxing the world to yield up more elegant significances, secretly glowing metaphysics. He goes for a tangerine at night: "Opening the refrigerator he is dazzled by the burst of light, finding it comparable to the effulgence which in the Rembrandt print reveals the stirring Lazarus, floods Christ's robes. In that case, the light presumably emanates from the Lord instead of coming from behind the No-Cal cream soda, but the principle is the same." Albert peers into a dryer at the Laundromat: "Behind the glass door, clothes appear and reappear, seemingly striving with death-defying...