assignment # 4 Rembrandt

    The portrait of the "the business man hero" was a portrait of a businessman that sold fur and his business was about marketing fur. In the portrait that he asked Rembrandt to do for him, his whole body and head was covered in fur. The texture of the fur looks so real and makes it look like it is soft. His body is surrounded by a luminous light that seems to cling to his body. Behind his head you could see the light going into dark because of the gray and black behind his head. While you look back at his face you could feel the intensity and feel so realistic. Makes you feel that he is looking right at you, you could see the line and wrinkles in his face and his eyes looks so sharp. He is the "the Business man's hero" because in the painting he is branding himself with his own merchandise which also shows that he is rich. He is also showing different types of signs by the color on his face like the pink around his eye shows that he had slept very little that night. The way every wrinkle and line around his eyes make his eyes look sharp and slightly intelligent.
    The mood of the portrait of the 83 year old woman is poignant vulnerability which in her face you could see that she is uncertain of something or she also looks kind of scared what is going to happen. She could be scared about whether she would be accepted up to heaven due to the sins she committed or could be who she is leaving behind. We don't know the reason but we could feel that it could be anything that could be worrying her. You could tell that she is either scared or unsure by the way he drew the wrinkles and lines around her face, they seem to droop and come down. Her eyes shows sadness in them you could feel it which this portrait makes you think that probably Rembrandt was a human psychologist.
  Other painters painted Sampson half naked in between the arms of his lover which is Delilah.  What Rembrandt is communicating in his painting of Sampson and Delilah is that he painted Sampson fully clothed which makes him seem he is more vulnerable. He also painted a knot in his clothing which symbolizes the relationship between him and his lover. He is lying between her legs while she is she cutting his hair with her right hand while her left hand caresses the rest of his tresses. Rembrandt goes straight to the point of the story which is about the tragic inseparability of amorous tenderness and brutal betrayal.