night watch painting please?

Question

i have totally forgot who painted 'the night watch'. and what its about.

Answer 1

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn. The painting is famous for three elements, its colossal size (see below), the effective use of light and shadow, and finally for the perception of motion in a traditionally military portrait scene. Like most of Rembrandt's works, it is best viewed from a distance.

This painting was completed in 1642, at the peak of the Netherlands' golden age. It depicts the eponymous company moving out, led by Captain Banning Cocq (dressed in black, with a red sash) and his lieutenant, Willem van Ruytenburch. With effective use of sunlight and shade, Rembrandt forces the eye onto the three most important characters among the crowd in the painting, the two gentlemen in the centre (from whom the painting gets its original title), and the small girl in the centre left background. Behind them the company's colours are carried by the ensign, Jan Visscher Cornelisen.

The militiamen were also called Arquebusiers after the Arquebus, a sixteenth-century long-barrelled gun.

Rembrandt has displayed the traditional emblem of the Arquebusiers in the painting in a natural way: the girl in yellow dress in the foreground is carrying the main symbols. She is a kind of mascot in herself: the claws of a dead chicken on her belt represent the 'Clauweniers'- Arquebusiers; the pistol behind the chicken stands for 'clover'; and, she is holding the militia's goblet. The man in front of her is wearing a helmet with an oak leaf - a traditional motif of the Arquebusiers. The dead chicken is also meant to represent a defeated adversary. The colour yellow is often associated with victory.

Answer 2

There are two Night Watch pictures in the Reijksmuseum in Amsterdam. One covers an entire Gallery Wall, and the second is a normal size painting, probably 30" by 40#. The painter is Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn.

Answer 3

Perhaps the most famous painting of this title is by Rembrandt van Rijn. You can see it at



This ia famous painting of a militia company on duty in Amsterdam. In fact, it memorializes the leaders of the company as important and influential men in the community. Painted in 1642, the painting helped define the self-importance and legitimate authority of a small aristocracy in the Dutch Republic at a time when Holland was slowly settling into a national entity divided between the merchant powers and the hereditary nobility of the House of Orange. This was a seminal period of the United Netherlands, and the power of the merchant class was ever-growing at the expense of the inland pastoral elites.

However, I wonder if you are thinking of "The Nighthawks" by Edward Hopper. That's the wonderful picture of some people sitting in a diner in the middle of the night. You can see that at:



This is a bittersweet depiction of life. The text on the web site tells the story quite well. It reminds me of late nights, coming home from the newspaper copy desk as the presses ran to print he morning editions, and there was this coffee shop along the way ....

Answer 4

Rembrandt van Rijn.
"The Night Watch, one of Rembrandts most famous paintings, is a group portrait of a division of the civic guard. Rembrandt depicted the group of militiamen in an original way. He did not paint them in neat row or sitting at their annual banquet, rather, he recorded a moment: a group of militiamen have just moved into action and are about to march off."

Answer 5

Rembrandt.

it's in the rijksmuseum in amsterdam.

well worth a visit, if only for the coffee shops.

the picture can be read as a skit on homosexuality.

look at the little fellow in yellow, at the front.

see where the man on the left of him is pointing his sword!

i shall leave you to look for other pointers!

Answer 6

try rembrandt, and allegedly it was commission from the
the civic dignitaries of the town , they took exception to it
it goes back to what gauguin said , art is not what you see it is what you make others see, the painting is large, remy had to fill a lot of space he did that with colour black and deep shadow with the figures emeging, a brilliant piece of work.

Answer 7

Go to the web search:

Rembrandt,s 'Night Watch'

Olgas' Gallery

That should help.

Jerry

Answer 8

Rembrandt. He was ostracised because it caused offence, and so died in poverty. It's hanging in the Rembrandt museum in Amsterdam.