a rembrandt special today with two self portraits so in a moment the second one
now when i look to rembrandt like i was saying in another video i am the worst worst drawing person
above 3 years old but when i look to him i just feel like saying teach me master
i don't think he can be classified because in my opinion not all his paintings but
some of his paintings are simply in a class apart that cannot be defined and these paintings
these self-portraits this one and a second one which had a completely different expression and i
will put these two together and try to match them together and you will see why these self-portraits
are just there is no word for that when you see human expression on a canvas like this
it's there's nothing else you can say basically you cannot even talk or describe so here's here
i'm definitely not going to talk about the rest of the dress and stuff like this that's for another
video and he's doing a completely different job in another paintings but the face here
let's just look from a distance first so we know this is self-portrait if i will look from this
distance it's like someone is looking to me and i have a really hard time to uh to just accept that
this is a painting i'm not looking at the bottom here just the face i have a really hard time
to accept that it's not a picture photographic or something like this a photography or a pick if you
want a hard time believing that now the expression here at this distance is like someone is looking
at me i'm not sure what the person is thinking he's just staring at me or at you and it's stays
there it's waiting it's in a position now let's zoom in and see what happens let's zoom some more
already at this point at least from my point of view i start feeling his emotions not emotions
like i don't know love angerness or something it's just the human presence i do feel that
when i look from this distance at his face even if the face is not perfect he's pretty old here
i would guess maybe in the 50s but i definitely feel something different about his skin but also
about his tail about his look and the look it's kind of piercing it's kind of piercing
now let's just soon keep zooming in and see what happens already at this point the eyes
are just almost too much to stare back at them the look on the eyes is just
okay maybe i should just walk away i'm not saying it's something aggressive or
mean or anything is just the look in the eye it's a person looking
at you and you know perhaps you live the life it's not always easy to look in a person's eyes
when the person has that straight look i think many people just kind of have a shade
over their eyes but sometimes they look with a straight look maybe that's what's happening here
in this the expression that the face at this point it's like someone that may have kind of i don't
know maybe worries with his life or something like this doesn't look exactly like someone happy
not very sad but just not happy and uh but it's really at this point i start capturing you
now remember that rembrandt remember actually i'll show that in the future videos he's playing a lot
with shadows and light and this is not maybe the best of his but it's definitely his he's doing
this kind of putting the objects in the shadow then you barely barely can see the objects but you
know they are there you can even guess their their shape and their dimension but it definitely looks
uh using that that shade and light play in this painting and it's very interesting to see that
the shade the eyes are barely coming out of that shade it's it's intended without any doubt it's
just that the borderline of that shade somehow but let's just keep zooming in and see what happens
at this point already i i can tell i can feel or i can see the personality of this person
it's it's there it's in the whole face
it's just the personality i can see but let's just keep zooming in
maybe here or maybe let's sit here let's let's stop here at this point is scary for me
i mean comment put your comments in the comment section please but at this point is just almost
too much to me for me to look at his eyes already the eye the pupil you can see the window
or maybe there was a light in the room but usually it's a window let's say a window
see that reflection that you can see in the actual photographs too but for some reason
there is like a brightness in the pupil the pupil has this um i'm not sure what i can say in english
translucency but it's like a glass you know the glass has
the surface has kind of a reflection or something even if it looks dark
it has that kind of it's like humid the eyes is humid the pupil it's humid
and at this point basically you are almost looking into his soul at this point is getting
uncomfortable and let's just keep zooming in and at this point he is definitely staring at you
i'm not saying it's perfect and i don't think we should ever look for perfection or something like
that but at this point you can tell the person it's absolutely staring at you and honestly i
cannot just go further more i will stop there because that's a little bit too much for me
all this to say that he is it's hard for me to pronounce it he is present in this picture that's
i don't know what to say i just i would feel like i want to step back
he put himself in a painting and when you look from the distance you don't get that idea
it's just when you come close i will stop commenting here because i feel like i should not
say more than this i will let you just get your own ideas let's just pass to the second painting
it's important to understand when you look at this painting it looks so ordinary and i mean
just compared to the other one this has much more detail in the face the skin of the face
this one looks like some painter just yeah he threw like this guy in the painting maybe
it's a piece of a bigger paint painting and he's just a random passing guy or something like that
it's not finished properly the skin it has words shades
but then you get the idea that this is
a self-portrait and it's a particular one i don't know many painters that have done
self-portrait this expression and it's let's just think about it this way usually
this is a self-fortunate more or less maybe smiling maybe looking some some other point
this place he's looking at us he's there this place he's almost
i'm missing that word he's playing with us it's a game he's playing this game
he's like i'm staring at you this time i'm just staring at you my way with that small smile
some um what they are called specialist some people say maybe this is not a smile though
the mouth the lips are not split open not open but it's just my interpretation that there is
a smile in there by the looks of of the uh eyes of the wrinkles uh wrinkles is darkened i guess
um to me it it looks like a um you know that funny face that you make just it's just a funny look to
the people to others people that's the point of this painting he is looking at you basically of
all other people that will stare at this painting with his own personal look
and idea he's like i don't know how to say this he's dominating you or he's just he he has the
control in this same he has the control in his own way and that's impressive that's very impressive
this one i'm not going to zoom much more than this i don't think we see much more than that
but it's it i don't know maybe he's a funny guy he had fun with people he was just
amusing uh if he thought about just have fun with this painting i'm going to have fun with those who
are going to stare at my painting very interesting very interesting all right see you in another
paintings with rembrandt i have quite a lot to show you thanks for watching see you next time