Rembrandt (5 Parts)

Alternative title

Rembrandt: The 1974 Kenneth Clark Lectures

Synopsis

Part 1: Rembrandt was the first artist to make the self-portrait a major means of artistic expression. The series begins with the image of a vigorous roughneck, passes through confident celebrity, and ends with the penetrating visions of a solitary old man.
Part 2: Rembrandt as a rebel. This aspect of his character is clear enough in his early work, both in his sympathetic etchings of tramps and beggars and in some major paintings such as ‘The Blinding of Sampson’: it is repressed in his period of prosperity but never disappears entirely.
Part 3: Rembrandt’s success as a portrait painter, culminating in his enormous portrait group ‘The Night Watch’.
Part 4: Rembrandt was a careless and prodigal spender and, by the age of 50 he was threatened with bankruptcy. He escaped from the prosperous life of his middle age but this was a spiritual rather than a material withdrawal and was the period of his greatest work in which his painting achieved a richer colour and a new spirituality.
Part 5: Rembrandt as an illustrator of the Bible. His last years were spent entirely alone and he brooded over every episode in the Bible in the light of his own experience and gave to it a vivid and dramatic form.

Series

Rembrandt

Language

English

Country

United States

Medium

Film; Film. 16mm. sd. col. 5 x 30 min.

Technical information

Black-and-white / Sound

Year of production

1974

Availability

Hire

Uses

Introductory courses.*

Subjects

Art

Keywords

biographies; paintings; paintings - Netherlandish; Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669)

Credits

Director

Colin Clark

Producer

Colin Clark

Writer

Kenneth Clark

Cast

Kenneth Clark

Distribution Formats

Type

Film

Format

16mm

Sections

Title

Self-portraits, The

Synopsis

Part 1: Rembrandt was the first artist to make the self-portrait a major means of artistic expression. The series begins with the image of a vigorous roughneck, passes through confident celebrity, and ends with the penetrating visions of a solitary old ma

Title

Rebel, The

Synopsis

Part 2: Rembrandt as a rebel. This aspect of his character is clear enough in his early work, both in his sympathetic etchings of tramps and beggars and in some major paintings such as 'The Blinding of Sampson': it is repressed in his period of prosperity

Title

Success, The

Synopsis

Part 3: Rembrandt's success as a portrait painter, culminating in his enormous portrait group 'The Night Watch'.

Title

Withdrawal, The

Synopsis

Part 4: Rembrandt was a careless and prodigal spender and, by the age of 50 he was threatened with bankruptcy. He escaped from the prosperous life of his middle age but this was a spiritual rather than a material withdrawal and was the period of his great

Title

Bible, The

Synopsis

Part 5: Rembrandt as an illustrator of the Bible. His last years were spent entirely alone and he brooded over every episode in the Bible in the light of his own experience and gave to it a vivid and dramatic form.

Production Company

Name

Ashwood Educational Productions

Distributor

Name

Concord Media

Email

sales@concordmedia.org.uk

Web

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Phone

01473 726 012

Address

Rosehill Centre
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Ipswich
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Notes

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