Rembrandt

An Oil Painter's Process

Tad Spurgeon | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Oil Painting, Painting Tips, Painting, Artistic Process, Starch Gel, Art History, Process, Turpentine, Rembrandt, Solvent Safety, Arts News
Tad Spurgeon

As an oil painter, I had always been interested in the craft of the materials. But after fifteen years of painting, it began to seem like I was workin...

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Painter of Light, Dead at 54

Hayley Rose Horzepa | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Thomas Kinkade Dead, Renaissance, Thomas Kinkade Death, Thomas Kinkade, Rembrandt, Painter of Light, Romanticism, Arts News
Hayley Rose Horzepa

Thomas Kinkade was one of the top grossing commercial artists of all time. He brought art into the homes of millions, many of whom could not afford to buy originals.

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The Bunny Boys Are Back In Town

Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Bunny, Video, Cindy Sherman, Adolescent Boys, Volta, Bratislava, Queer Art, Gay, Rembrandt, Berlin Art, Andrej Dubravsky, Slidepollajax, Wicker Man, Donnie Darko, Galerie Jiri Svestka, Arts News

Andrej Dubravsky paints inexperienced boys with an unsettling pair of bunny ears. They shift back and forth between vulnerable and wicked, showing the...

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'Psych' Premiere: Despereaux Brings Out Shawn's Indiana Jones

Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: TV Canada, Video, USA, Despereaux, Madchen Amick, Tv Replay, Rembrandt, Psych, Indiana Shawn and the Temple of the Kinda Crappy Rusty Old Dagger, Cary Elwes, Mid-Season Premiere, TV News

"Psych" (Wed., 10 p.m. EST on USA) returned for the second half of its sixth season, bringing along Cary Elwes' always enjoyable Despereaux. As much f...

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The Line Is Drawn Between Rembrandt And Degas At The Met

Posted 02.27.2012

Read More: The Met, Video, Edgar Degas, French-Impressionists, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rembrandt and Degas: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Impressionism, Slidepollajax, Degas, Rembrandt, Dutch Master, Rembrandt Van Rijn, Arts News

Soaking in the work of the French Impressionist Edgar Degas is one breathtaking experience to behold, but to examine the artist alongside the great Du...

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Getting More From Everyday: A Meditation for Discomfort and Stress

Michael Stanclift, N.D. | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Pain, Authenticity, Meditation, Self-Improvement, Rembrandt, Hardships, Mindfulness, Anxiety, Self-Awareness, Worry, Meditation Techniques, Guided Meditation, Mindful Meditation, Free Meditation, Healthy Living News
Michael Stanclift, N.D.

Through my mindfulness practice, I've had a glimpse at living authentically, but have yet to make that my permanent expression.

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A Balancing Act

Annmarie Erickson | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Arts Marketing, Detroit Around Town, Rembrandt Exhibit, Jesus, Religious Art, Rembrandt, Detroit Institute of Arts, Painting, Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus, Detroit News
Annmarie Erickson

Rembrandt and Jesus. Jesus or Rembrandt? Which name headlines the marquee? Is it the world-renowned painter? Or does Jesus automatically trump everyone on the playing field because, after all, he is Jesus?

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Top Ten Detroit Cultural Moments 2011

Colin Darke | Posted 02.29.2012

Read More: Sherry Washington, Rembrandt, Wicked, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Institute of Arts, Cranbrook Art Museum, Detroit Science Center, Art X Detroit, Luis Croquer, Detroit Creative Corridor Center, Detroit Design Festival, Heidelberg Project, Kresge, Detroit Around Town, Detroit News
Colin Darke

This past year brought us great art exhibits, theatre, and music -- if you were in Detroit and could not find something to do, you had your eyes shut!

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Edvard Munch and Personal Art

David Galenson | Posted 02.19.2012

Read More: Edvard Munch, Vincent Van Gogh, Tracey Emin, Frida Kahlo, Rembrandt, Louise Bourgeois, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Lowell, Arts News
David Galenson

In a 1999 essay, Ernst van de Wetering, professor of art history at the U. of Amsterdam and chairman of the Rembrandt Research Project, noted that Rembrandt had painted himself at least 40 times, had etched himself 31 times, and had drawn a handful of self-portraits.

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Our Brain Reacts Differently When Told Art Is Fake

Posted 12.06.2011

Read More: Brain Art, Oxford Art, Art Reason, Original Masterpiece, Oxford Study Art, Authentic Art, Art Fakes, Art Psychology, Art and the Brain, Rembrandt, Reaction to Art, Art Study, Arts News

Today it is deemed logical to travel great distances and pay a lot of money to see a single masterpiece, an original work of art. To do all this for a...

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Kate Abbey-Lambertz

Rembrandt's Jesus At The DIA (PHOTOS)

HuffingtonPost.com | Kate Abbey-Lambertz | Posted 11.21.2011

Read More: Video, Jesus Paintings, Jewish Jesus Paintings, Supper at Emmaus, Detroit Around Town, Christian Art, Rembrandt Paintings, Detroit Institute of Arts, Rembrandt, Dia, Religious Paintings, Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus, Detroit News

DETROIT -- Here's why you should go see the Detroit Institute of Arts show "Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus," opening Sunday: There are a lot of jaw-d...

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Transforming Rembrandt's Masterpiece

AP | TOBY STERLING | Posted 12.26.2011

Read More: Art Discovery, Night Watch, Amsterdam, Rembrandt, Art History, Rembrandt Night Watch, Arts News

AMSTERDAM -- Rembrandt's "Night Watch" may need a different nickname after the painting was put under new lighting on Wednesday that makes it look lik...

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Visiting the Oldest Dutch Master: The Frans Hals Museum

David Galenson | Posted 12.17.2011

Read More: Vermeer, Seymour Slive, Rembrandt, Frans Hals, Haarlem, Arts News
David Galenson

Frans Hals is often overshadowed by the other two great artistic geniuses of the Dutch Golden Age, Rembrandt van Rijn and Johannes Vermeer. Yet there is one dimension in which Hals stands clearly apart.

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Steve Jobs and Leadership: Will His Legacy Continue?

Saskia Miller | Posted 12.06.2011

Read More: Steve Jobs, Rembrandt, Apple, Steve Jobs Dead, Remembering Steve Jobs, Technology News
Saskia Miller

What happens when a creation loses its creator? I'm referring, of course, to Steve Jobs and the Apple universe that many of us live in.

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Disciple: What Degas Learned From Rembrandt

David Galenson | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Degas, Rijksmuseum, Rembrandt, Degas Biography, Degas Life, Edgar Degas, Arts News
David Galenson

In 1856, 22-year-old Edgar Degas left the prestigious Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris just a year after he had enrolled.

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Q&A With Nicole Krauss, Author of Great House and The History of Love

Elana Estrin | Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Edgar Allan Poe, Mishkenot Sha?Ananim, Kenwood House, Sigmund Freud, Alma Singer, Bruno Schulz, Pinochet, The Moomintroll Series, Georges Perec, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Fleur Cowles, Man Walks Into a Room, Evelyn Waugh, John Fowles, Haim Hazaz, Isaac Bashevis Singer, National Book Award, Yehuda Amichai, Rembrandt, Franz Kafka, Jerusalem Cultural Fellowship, Saul Bellow, Peter Handke, Jerusalem, John Foster Dulles, Susan Sontag, Amos Oz, Zbigniew Herbert, Chile, Tove Jansson, Francis Bacon, Courtauld Institute in London, Nicole Krauss, The Last Jew, Great House, Hampstead Heath, The History of Love, Yoel Hoffmann, Samuel Beckett, Yoram Kaniuk, David Grossman, Israel, Harry Ransom Center, Thomas Bernhard, Books We Love, Books News
Elana Estrin

While studying art history in graduate school, novelist Nicole Krauss spent hours in the library researching Rembrandt, only to find that she preferred imagining the details of his life instead.

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How the LA County Sheriff's Department Used Social Media to Help Save a Rembrandt

Anthony Amore | Posted 10.28.2011

Read More: Social Media, Twitter, Media, Rembrandt, Facebook, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Ritz Carlton, Text Messages, Marina Del Rey, Technology News
Anthony Amore

Art theft is notoriously under-reported. But the days of keeping such a loss a secret are quickly fading thanks to information sharing through social media and networking.

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Authenticity Of Stolen Rembrandt Questioned

latimes.com | Posted 10.22.2011

Read More: Los Angeles Culture, Stolen Rembrandt Los Angeles, Rembrandt, Painting, Los Angeles, Stolen Rembrandt Ritz Carlton, Stolen Rembrandt, Arts News

The dramatic theft of a Rembrandt drawing from an upscale hotel in Marina del Rey and its mysterious recovery from a priest's office two days later ha...

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Art Fair Survey Results; Art Heists; An Ode to Art Supplies

Jane Chafin | Posted 10.18.2011

Read More: The Gardner Heist, Art Fairs, Art Heist, Not for Profits, Rembrandt, Museums, Art Supplies, Rembrandt Stolen, Arts News
Jane Chafin

Even though I haven't been a practicing artist for a long time, my pulse still quickens when I walk into an art supply store or get the Utrect catalog in the mail. Remember the excitement of getting that first box of 64 Crayola crayons?

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Stolen Rembrandt Recovered

AP/The Huffington Post | By ROBERT JABLON and THOMAS WATKINS | Posted 10.16.2011

Read More: Rembrandt Art, Stolen Rembrandt Found, Video, Art Heist, Art, Artists, Rembrandt, Stolen Rembrandt Drawing, Stolen Art, Stolen Rembrandt, Recovered Stolen Art, Arts News

MARINA DEL REY, Calif. -- It wasn't some bold theft carried out by burglars breaking into a heavily-fortified museum with high-tech alarms to swipe a ...

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Rembrandt Stolen From LA Hotel

AP | THOMAS WATKINS | Posted 10.15.2011

Read More: Rembrandt Stolen Los Angeles, Rembrandt Stolen Ritz Carlton, Rembrandt Stolen La, Rembrandt Stolen Marina Del Ray, Rembrandt, Painting, Marina Del Ray, Los Angeles, Ritz Carlton, Rembrandt Stolen, Arts News

LOS ANGELES — A 17th century drawing by Rembrandt was snatched from a private art display at a California luxury hotel while a curator was momen...

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Stolen Rembrandt: It Was A 'Well-Thought-Out, Well-Executed Theft'

AP | Posted 10.14.2011

Read More: Rembrandt the Judgement, Rembrant Stolen, Ritz Carlton Hotel Marina Del Rey, Video, Rembrandt, Ritz Carlton Stolen Rembrandt, Los Angeles News

An art thief pulled off a heist of a small Rembrandt drawing worth $250,000 while the exhibition curator was momentarily distracted at a California lu...

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Guess The Artist

Posted 09.28.2011

Read More: Dutch Golden Age Painting, Dutch Painting, Rubens, Ruysch, Rembrandt, Classical Painting, Painting, Ruisdael, Dutch Golden Age, Guess the Artist, Arts News

The vanitas painting below was created by this Dutch Golden Age artist. Guess the answer in the poll below and come back tomorrow for the reveal as we...

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An American Sculptor in Holland

Susan Fogwell | Posted 09.28.2011

Read More: Artisanie Europe, Leiden, Etsy, Holland, Amsterdam, Laurie Poast, Rembrandt, Expats, Dutch Artists, Netherlands, Travel News
Susan Fogwell

There are the sights and sounds of tall-masted old sailboats and put-putting tugboats outside and that ochreous Dutch sunlight pouring in during the afternoon.

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PHOTOS: Happy Birthday Rembrandt!

Posted 09.14.2011

Read More: Birthdays, Dutch Golden Age, Painting, Artist Birthday, The Night Watch, Dutch, Dutch Art, Rembrandt Van Rijn, Northern Renaissance, Portraiture, Art, The Prodigal Son, Rembrandt Birthday, Rembrandt, Portraits, Portrait, Self Portrait, Arts News

Happy birthday to Rembrant van Rijn, who was born today, the 15th of July in 1606. A prominent painter and etcher of the Dutch Golden Age, Rembrant is...

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