Rembrandt works slowly. The layers of time in each painting, the atmosphere, depth and light in each layer – these take time. He has fifty years to develop an indelible touch, leaving behind a legacy of his masterpiece. His best and favorite student, Carel Fabritius (up to 15 years) developed his artistry, dying at the age of 32. He left only twelve paintings and nine paintings.
Born in 1622, Fabritius was located between Rembrandt and Vermeer in the Golden Age of the Netherlands. He is a member of the Delft School, but there is no domestic scene like Vermeer and Pieter de Hooch. He experimented, lightened the background, explored the perspective of space, invented the scenes, and played with myths. He matures quickly and stably, creating works that make their technical abilities, exquisite and beautiful.
His father was an amateur painter and his two brothers began painting. Carel’s earliest paintings were The Beheading of John the Baptistin 1640, he created it at the age of 18. At the time, he worked in Rembrandt’s studio and had already had the gift to convey the attitude of the character. Chiaroscuro was full of confidence and radiance, comparing the white of Salome’s Ermine collar with the old woman’s raised fingers. executioner’s rosy face, pale on the plate. In everyone’s eyes, the contrast is also obvious, clearly showing their emotions.
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Like Rembrandt, Fabritius works in complex layers, usually modeled with a heavy-loaded brush. Two artists use brown grounds to work from dark to light. Rather than imitating the exact form, they make suggestions of some form that are sometimes considered unfinished paintings. This independence from the image creates emotional and spiritual qualities, such as Fabritius’ Hagar and Angel1643. Details in the background, the deliciousness of the hands, the radiance of the skin, and the huge bursting wings of the angel reveal the mastery of such a young man. Rembrandt and his school often used Hagar’s story in the Old Testament.
Fabritius has exhibited several paintings in different museums and collections around the world, which makes it difficult to meet in person. I was lucky enough to see one of his paintings. Mercury and Agra Ross1645, Master’s degree in Boston. The following are the famous golden highlights in his teacher’s works and evidence that Fabritius entered his own genius. In this obscure classical myth, the mercury god transforms the mortal Aglauros into stone, as she jealously tries to avoid Mercury from his beloved. Fabritius chooses to portray this moment, and then she uses the stone as an intimate human story. The dramatic lighting provides the work with quantity and imports, as well as details of Mercury’s snake, helmet, lightning in high heels, red sashes and flowing fabrics in dresses.
Hanging at the National Gallery of London View of Delft, stall with musical instrument seller1652. The scene is a panoramic view of Delft, with the seller and his lute in the foreground. Obviously, Fabritius loves to try and transcend his contemporaries. He used thin and delicate glaze in the Impasto area, resulting in depth, light and shadow, fluidity and rich texture. Not long after, Vermeer followed.
In the last year of his life, Fabritius painted two of his most extraordinary paintings. one, sentinel1654, is a street scene of Don Quixote. There are drunk or sleeping or other lazy soldiers, his trustworthy dog patiently waits for the owner to wake up. In the background is an arched bridge, stone pillars, curved streets and overhead stairs leading to the dark cave. Above the bridge is a stone relief of a saint using a pet pig. Even the vibrant greenery, the trees passing through the bridge, and the shadow of his dog reveal rare high talent. This is a gentle sadness surrounded by classical beauties.
But perhaps Fabritius’s most famous painting is Golden Birdalso in 1654, now in Mauritshuis, The Hague. During his time painting the painting, 132,000 migrating goldfish were sold in England as a songbird. The poor bird of Fabritius was tied to his perch. The painter has very little ability, such as sentinelcreate a beautiful sadness wrapped around it. You can see every stroke, each wing feather, red, yellow stripes around the beak. The bird looked straight at the audience, full of emotion.
During the twenty years between 1640 and 1660, when artists were active, more than 1.3 million images of the Netherlands were drawn, but only a few Fabritius paintings remained. Production means low prices. Vermeer owns three paintings of Fabritius and hangs them on his wall. It’s not clear which one is yet to be known. You can see Fabritius’ influence in Vermeer’s work; shaky plaster, lights and shadows, shocking works, intimacy in the scenes, and his own view of Delft. Fabritius died during the “Delft Thunderclap” at a gunpowder factory, when 90,000 pounds of gunpowder were accidentally detonated. A quarter of the city was destroyed in the explosion, Fabritius’s work, his precious life and what could have been masterpieces.
