Rembrandt’s painting was the psychology of light by using light and shadow to draw attention to his art. His art seeks to go behind the portrait and study the picture. In this, he depicts the mood, the real countenance of the art and involves the viewer. It was a sort of narrative he told through his paintings with portraits such as Samson and Delilah and the Night watch. To achieve this, he used both tenebrism by Caravaggio, foreshortening and by roughly painting his art. Rembrandt’s painting was a freestyle which is not limited by the time of the people he painted.
Rembrandt detaches himself to the painting to give it its accurate representation. In his early art, he blended both opulence and Remeekness, which was encouraged by religion. Therefore displayed opulence in a very subtle manner. Furthermore, Rembrandt combined medium and scale, which was common in religious paintings. He emulated Caravaggio by using the technique of tenebrism to add more detail to the art. In this, he captured the wrinkles, the fabrics and the moods of the portraits.
In his painting of his late wife Sasky, he depicts the sombre and melancholic mood of his wife. For the first time, Sasky is in an austere mood with adornments wrapped around her. On one of her shoulders, she clings to a cloth to ward off the cold. The picture is arguable a story of her nearing death told by Sasky trying to ward off death though it is too late.
Rembrandt also roughly painted his portraits as sketches to parts he wanted them to be more prominent. In his second wife’s painting, he paints her fabrics in thick strokes of bush while her body is painted in thin and fluid strokes to give her body more attention. Additionally, he roughly paints her hand to intrigue the viewer to the painting.
Lastly, in the Night watch painting, he uses foreshortening and tenebrism to convey the story to the viewer. Rembrandt places a hierarchy on each figure by the uneven light cast on them. He also draws a roughly painted spear to incorporate the three-dimensional painting. All the characters in his portrait are in different activities which emphasizes their movement. Therefore, all these styles intrigue the viewer by making them feel that they are interacting with the painting.