Assignment #4 (part 1)

Nicholas Rut's is a businessman that dealt with with fur (russian sable) which was the most expensive. Rut's decided to wear his own stock of fur and have a portrait of himself made by Rembrandt. It was named the hairiest painting imaginable. In Rut's painting you will notice a long drop of fur with intense detail dropping down along his body. Rut's glance is described as that of a slightly impatient intelligence. His inner eyelids pink as if he sacrificed his sleep for the good of the investors. I believe he is called the business mans hero because Rembrandt has painted him with such great detail and meaning it portrays the true meaning of hard work and dedication of Nicholas Rut's like no one has ever been able to do.

The Portrait of the 83 year old women has details of droopy eyes, oily skin and unfocused melancholy. In my perspective it shows that she is expressing sorrow as if she just found out terrible news. In a way that she is reflecting of her past and figuring out where she went wrong that caused this sorrow. The detail of the portrait helps look at the exact mood that is reflected off the image and figure out what could have caused her to look as if she was in a terrible mood. Rembrandt has definitely proved that he is not only a painter but in fact a psychologist of the human condition.

This painting of Sampson and Delilah speaks for itself more than any other painting. Rembrandt took a story, put it in his mind and was able to make it come to life with one painting. Rembrandt was trying to show a painting as if it were a movie by getting everything that happened into one gesture. In my opinion he is not only a painter but is also a Nonverbal Storyteller.