The Night Watch is a valuable painting by Rembrandt van Rijn, who was Dutch painter and etcher. Along the long European history or Dutch history, Remb...
The Night Watch is a valuable painting by Rembrandt van Rijn, who was Dutch painter and etcher. Along the long European history or Dutch history, Rembrandt van Rijn is regarded as one of the greatest painters and most important printmakers. During the Dutch Golden Age of painting, people witnessed the great contribution he made to the European art. His prolific and innovative painting style was against the mainstream of the contemporary Baroque style in Europe. The Night Watch could be one of his most famous works which fully reflected his unique style.
This masterpiece of Rembrandt, The Night Watch, is now housed in Amsterdam National Gallery. This is a priceless treasure and because of the painting Rembrandt encountered a miserable situation. It happened in 1624 when Rembrandt was 36 years old. At that time, there were 16 security Shooters collect their money together and asked Rembrandt to paint a group portrait for them. In Rembrandt’s mind, it was difficult to arrange so many people together in a painting so he designed a proper scene in accordance with their identity. The scene that Rembrandt designed was: the Shooters heard about the alarm and got ready to see what happened. The captain was scheduling tasks and someone wiping the barrel while others carrying the banner with a group of children around. Therefore, this is a static military portrait.
However, this design brought a real trouble. The shooters thought that their statuses were not arranged evenly because of the difference among the brightness, and sizes. As a result, they refused to accept the painting and even appealed to the court, creating a big discussion. People in the whole city laughed at Rembrandt and he was destined to face the fact that no one would buy his painting in the rest of his life.
In fact The Night Watch is really a great work. Rembrandt depicted the group moving out with effective use of sunlight and shade, leading our eyes to the three central among the crowd. After this painting was taken home by the militia, it was cut smaller so that it could be hang on the wall of the hall, making the whole picture lose original balance. And people in the hall burned coal for warmth so that the painting was covered a thick layer of ash and become a little dark. As a result, people of the 18th century wmistakenly assume that this painting depicted the scene at night and gave it the name “The Night Watch ". When we stared at this painting, we would feel as if life running on the canvas.
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